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COALESCE

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COALESCE



	Commande COALESCE COALESCE (arithmetic_expression, ..., arithmetic_expression)

Description

The COALESCE function returns the first non-null expression from the list of arithmetic_expression type arguments passed. It will return NULL if all the expressions passed are NULL.

Example

This example returns all the invoice numbers from 2007 where the VAT is greater than 0:

SELECT INVOICE_NO
FROM INVOICES
WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR(INVOICE_DATE)) = 2007
HAVING (COALESCE(INVOICE_VAT;0) > 0)

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