Information from this blog comes from the Snowflake Architecture and SQL book by Tom Coffing and David Cook.
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Snowflake Stored Procedures - SQL Control Structures
The picture below shows the Snowflake control structures that help perform logic for critical decisions based on data and are excellent at manipulating data in flexible and powerful ways.
The IF-THEN statements are a simple form of IF statements. If the condition is true, statements between THEN and END IF execute otherwise, statements following END IF execute.
The example below creates and calls a procedure with two input arguments and then uses the IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, and END IF logic.
The example below creates and calls a procedure with a single input argument. A CASE and ELSE statement evaluate the input argument. This CASE example refers to a valued case statement because the input argument immediately follows CASE. Therefore, the procedure only evaluates VAR1 for equality conditions.
The example below creates and calls a procedure with two input arguments. A searched CASE and ELSE statement evaluate the input arguments.
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