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Explanation of instr function

888181Nov 1 2011 — edited Nov 1 2011

Hi,

I was assisted with a query and received the the following code. The code did what I wanted it to do but I don't really understand how it works. I tried googling but the examples are different to this one and don't contain the > 0 or || (Which I assume references a column. Could someone please explain it to me.

 SET Financial_Review = ( case when instr(Debt_Review||Judgement||Liquidation||under_admin,'Y') > 0 then  'Y' else 'N' end)

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This post has been answered by Karthick2003 on Nov 1 2011

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