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Subj:   Re: View column data type
 
From:   Fred W Pluebell

Not quite. It's not CASE versus COALESCE. Either way, you inherit the CHARACTER SET of the first expression; but for COALESCE the first expression is almost never a literal.

Either rearrange the CASE logic (e.g. negate the conditions) so that the first expression is not a literal string, or "translate" the literal.

For example, assuming Column2 is CHARACTER SET LATIN:

     CASE WHEN Column2 IS NULL THEN '' ELSE Column2 END
      => UNICODE
     CASE WHEN Column2 IS NOT NULL THEN Column2 ELSE '' END
      => LATIN [Note that this is similar to what COALESCE(Column2, '')
     means.]
     CASE WHEN Column2 IS NULL THEN TRANSLATE('' USING UNICODE_TO_LATIN) ELSE
     Column2 END
      => LATIN


     
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