Should be easy...

Hi,
Let's say I have a table with 3 columns - name, date, and result.
Here is an example:
Name Date1 Result
John 7/3/05 45.23
Jill 7/2/05 51.33
I want to create a view where a "calculated-field" is created which simply indicates 1 if the result is greater than or equal to 50 or 0 if less than 50. I don't think I can use DECODE for this, can I?
I'm thinking something along the following:
select name,date1,result,decode(result,>=50,1,0) from table;
I don't think this will work though, any other ideas??? Thanks

If you have 9i, it may be clearer to use a CASE statement
SELECT name,
       date1,
       result,
       (CASE WHEN result >= 50
             THEN 1
             ELSE 0
         END)
FROM <<table name>>Justin
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