I've found in the documentation of case statment that it uses short-circuit:
Oracle Database uses short-circuit evaluation. That is, for a simple CASE expression, the database evaluates each comparison_expr value only before comparing it to expr, rather than evaluating all comparison_expr values before comparing any of them with expr. Consequently, Oracle never evaluates a comparison_expr if a previous comparison_expr is equal to expr. For a searched CASE expression, the database evaluates each condition to determine whether it is true, and never evaluates a condition if the previous condition was true.
But the following SQL is returning divisor is equal to zero
:
WITH data AS (SELECT 1 AS cond, 10 AS num, 0 AS div FROM DUAL)
SELECT
CASE WHEN cond = 2 THEN (CASE WHEN MAX(div) = 0 THEN 0 ELSE SUM(num / div) END)
ELSE -1
END AS result
FROM data
GROUP BY cond
Any solution to avoid divisor is equal to zero
error?
EDIT
This query works fine:
WITH data AS (SELECT 1 AS cond, 10 AS num, 0 AS div FROM DUAL)
SELECT
CASE WHEN cond = 2 THEN (CASE WHEN MAX(div) = 0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END)
ELSE -1
END AS result
FROM data
GROUP BY cond