MySQL查询使用CASE选择多列

Question

I have the following query which works correctly:

SELECT Future.enemy_type,
CASE WHEN Future.enemy_type = 'square' THEN Users.color
ELSE ''
END AS color,
CASE WHEN Future.enemy_type = 'square' THEN Users.user_ID
ELSE ''
END AS ID,
CASE WHEN Future.enemy_type = 'headquarters' THEN Users.username
ELSE ''
END AS username,
CASE WHEN Future.enemy_type = 'headquarters' THEN Users.home_lat
ELSE ''
END AS lat
FROM Future
LEFT JOIN Users ON Future.user_ID_affected = Users.user_ID
WHERE Future.time > 1539503510
AND Future.time <= 1539503512
AND Future.user_ID = 10;

However, is there a more efficient way to write it? I need to SELECT a few values based on the conditional (eg square or headquarters), but I understand that CASE can only return 1 value. However, it seems inefficient to check the condition with a new CASE statement each time I want to return one value.

Some people on SO have suggested using JOIN statements for similar queries, but I'm not sure how this would work with multiple conditionals?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I like the IF() function for simple statements:

SELECT
    Future.enemy_type,
    IF (Future.enemy_type = 'square', Users.color, '') AS color,
    IF (Future.enemy_type = 'square', Users.user_ID, '') AS ID,
    IF (Future.enemy_type = 'headquarters', Users.username, '') AS username,
    IF (Future.enemy_type = 'headquarters', Users.home_lat, '') AS lat
FROM Future
LEFT JOIN Users
    ON Future.user_ID_affected = Users.user_ID
WHERE
    Future.time > 1539503510  AND
    Future.time <= 1539503512 AND
    Future.user_ID = 10;