Hi there Monks!
I don't know if should ask this question here but I might be lucky, maybe one of you had the same problem before.
Here is what I have, my issue is if I don't have the year 2009 in the database I would like to have another option, and doing all in the SQL query instead of checking afterwards in Perl. My code here is returning both years when what I want is to return 2009 if found only, otherwise get the year 2010, but not both.Has anyone encountered such issue before?

...code sql connect...
my $year = param('year') || ''; # for testing only
my $sql = "select name
from mytable
where acc = '12345' and ( (year='$year') or (year = $year + 1) )";
my $res= $dbh->exec_select( $sql );
...code

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I tried something like that, but its doesn't work:
...code
my $year = param('year') || ''; # for testing only
my $sql = "select name
,case year when '$year' then '$year' else '$year + 1' end
from mytable
where acc = '12345' and ( (year='$year') or (year = $year + 1) )";
...code

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Thanks for the help!!!

In reply to SQl logic inPerl by Anonymous Monk

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