Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/04/07 21:36

Techhead (jorgenson.b@gmail.com) writes:
> Somebody at work told me to use this:
>
> SELECT CASE WHEN P.STATE IS NULL THEN '' ELSE P.STATE END
>
> It seems to work. Is this similar as to what is described above?

Yes, coalesce is a shortcut for the above. The nice thing with coalesce is
that it accept a list of values, and will return the first value that
is non-NULL.



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