I've got a scenario where I want to switch on two different tables in an outer join. It goes something like this:-

         select mytable.id, 
                yourtable.id
           from mytable
left outer join (case
                    when mytable.id = 2 then table2 
                      yourtable on table1.id = table2.id
                    else
                      table3 yourtable on table1.id = table3.id
                 end)

...but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?