How do I return a boolean value from a query during condition evaluation?

Question

I need something like this:

select (len(someLongTextColumn)=0) as isEmpty;

The above doesn\'t work,

any alternatives?

Answer 1

Try this.

SELECT (CASE WHEN LEN(SomeLongTextColumn) = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS IsEmtpy

@gbn has good explanation about how to return boolean.