How do you write a conditional in a MySQL select statement?

Question

I\'m using MySQL, and I want to do a sort of ternary statement in my SQL like:

SELECT USER_ID, ((USER_ID = 1) ? 1 : 0) AS FIRST_USER
  FROM USER

Answer 1

SELECT USER_ID, IF(USER_ID = 1, 1, 0) AS FIRST_USER FROM USER

The IF() statement works similarly to the ternary ? : operator.