How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement?

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You have the following table named Employees.

You need to calculate the employee_type value based on the hire_date value.

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Box 1: CASE

CASE evaluates a list of conditions and returns one of multiple possible result expressions.

CASE can be used in any statement or clause that allows a valid expression. For example, you can use CASE in statements such as SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and SET, and in clauses such as select_list, IN, WHERE, ORDER BY, and HAVING.

Syntax: Simple CASE expression:

CASE input_expression

WHEN when_expression THEN result_expression [ …n ] [ ELSE else_result_expression ] END

Box 2: ELSE