SQL Server language data in table

Question

I developing web application in asp.net with multilanguage support. Let says that I have this datatable (I can not change it) ITEMS.
ID ITEM LANGUAGE
1 car en
1 das auto de
2 door en
3 desk en
3 tisch de
If user uses german language then sql looks like that:
SELECT id, item from ITEMS WHERE language = 'de'
I get that results:
1 das auto
3 tisch
Problem is, that all rows are not translated, so if I want to display all data where language field is 'de', there results are just items with langugage field 'de'. I want that if there is no 'de' field for some row, than it should display default language
('en').
In this case results should be
1 das auto
2 door (there is no translation for door, so english version should display)
3 tisch
I tried with ISNULL in sql statement, but with no success.
Just for information, i am using stored procedures.
Please, help me out.

Answer 1

Specify alias (lng or en) for ID column as it exists in both tables.
Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP,
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