I am looking for a way to create a select without repeating the conditional query.
I'm assuming that you don't want to repeat Foo-stuff+bar
. You could put your calculation into a derived table:
SELECT CASE WHEN a.TestValue > 2 THEN a.TestValue ELSE 'Fail' END
FROM (SELECT (Foo-stuff+bar) AS TestValue FROM MyTable) AS a
A common table expression would work just as well:
WITH a AS (SELECT (Foo-stuff+bar) AS TestValue FROM MyTable)
SELECT CASE WHEN a.TestValue > 2 THEN a.TestValue ELSE 'Fail' END
FROM a
Also, each part of your switch should return the same datatype, so you may have to cast one or more cases.