drop table if exists t1;
select IF(0,"ERROR","this"),IF(1,"is","ERROR"),IF(NULL,"ERROR","a"),IF(1,2,3)|0,IF(1,2.0,3.0)+0 ;
IF(0,"ERROR","this")	IF(1,"is","ERROR")	IF(NULL,"ERROR","a")	IF(1,2,3)|0	IF(1,2.0,3.0)+0
this	is	a	2	2.0
CREATE TABLE t1 (st varchar(255) NOT NULL, u int(11) NOT NULL) TYPE=MyISAM;
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('a',1),('A',1),('aa',1),('AA',1),('a',1),('aaa',0),('BBB',0);
select if(1,st,st) s from t1 order by s;
s
a
A
a
aa
AA
aaa
BBB
select if(u=1,st,st) s from t1 order by s;
s
a
A
a
aa
AA
aaa
BBB
select if(u=1,binary st,st) s from t1 order by s;
s
A
AA
BBB
a
a
aa
aaa
select if(u=1,st,binary st) s from t1 where st like "%a%" order by s;
s
A
AA
a
a
aa
aaa
explain extended select if(u=1,st,binary st) s from t1 where st like "%a%" order by s;
id	select_type	table	type	possible_keys	key	key_len	ref	rows	Extra
1	SIMPLE	t1	ALL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	7	Using where; Using filesort
Warnings:
Note	1003	select high_priority if((test.t1.u = 1),test.t1.st,(test.t1.st collate _latin1'BINARY')) AS `s` from test.t1 where (test.t1.st like _latin1'%a%') order by if((test.t1.u = 1),test.t1.st,(test.t1.st collate _latin1'BINARY'))
select nullif(u=0, 'test') from t1;
nullif(u=0, 'test')
NULL
NULL
NULL
NULL
NULL
1
1
explain extended select nullif(u=0, 'test') from t1;
id	select_type	table	type	possible_keys	key	key_len	ref	rows	Extra
1	SIMPLE	t1	ALL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	7	
Warnings:
Note	1003	select high_priority nullif((test.t1.u = 0),_latin1'test') AS `nullif(u=0, 'test')` from test.t1
drop table t1;
create table t1 (num  double(12,2));
insert into t1 values (144.54);
select sum(if(num is null,0.00,num)) from t1;
sum(if(num is null,0.00,num))
144.54
drop table t1;
create table t1 (x int, y int);
insert into t1 values (0,6),(10,16),(20,26),(30,10),(40,46),(50,56);
select min(if(y -x > 5,y,NULL)), max(if(y - x > 5,y,NULL)) from t1;
min(if(y -x > 5,y,NULL))	max(if(y - x > 5,y,NULL))
6	56
drop table t1;
