How to use case to replace the & in select statement

Question

Oracle version : 11.1.0.6.0
RHEL
Hi,
I want to get a list of all expired and locked users but want to replace the "&" with and here is my code but it isn't working.
Please some guidance, thanks.
SQL> select username,
2 case (account_status like 'EXP%' then 'EXPIRED AND LOCKED'
3 ELS 'no locked users'
4 end) account_status
5 from dba_users
6 where account_status like 'EXPI%';
case (account_status like 'EXP%' then 'EXPIRED AND LOCKED'
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis

Answer 1

798188 wrote:
thanks for the comments I corrected the ELSE and 'EPX%' but still same error :
EOH> select username,
2 case (account_status like 'EXP%' then 'EXPIRED AND LOCKED'
3 ELSE 'no locked users'
4 end) account_status
5 from dba_users
6 where account_status like 'EXP%';
case (account_status like 'EXP%' then 'EXPIRED AND LOCKED'
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-00907: missing right parenthesisFirst of all, you do not need a CASE statement.
Did you see the where clause of your query??
6 where account_status like 'EXP%';do you realise that your query will always return those records for which value of account_status column starts with 'EXP'?
Why use CASE when it could be simply written like this :
SELECT username,
       'EXPIRED AND LOCKED'
FROM   dba_users
WHERE  account_status LIKE 'EXP%'