How do you select all columns, plus the result of a CASE statement in oracle 11g?

ora-00923, oracle, sql

Solution

Add an alias for mytable like this:

select t.*, (case when PRI_VAL = 1 then 'High'
                when PRI_VAL = 2 then 'Med'
                when PRI_VAL = 3 then 'Low'
          end) as PRIORITY
from MYTABLE t;

This is not dependent on any specific Oracle version, not sure about other databases.

Problem

I want to select *, and not have to type out all individual columns, but I also want to include a custom column with a case statement. I tried the following: ``` select *, (case when PRI_VAL = 1 then 'High' when PRI_VAL = 2 then 'Med' when PRI_VAL = 3 then 'Low' end) as PRIORITY from MYTABLE; ``` But it is complaining that ``` ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected ```

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