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Wildhoney · 11-30-2007, 10:04 PM

I never knew about COALESCE. The amount of times I've used conditional statements to check if columns are NULL is unbelievable. Is that a recent addition? As it doesn't even ring a bell.

11-30-2007, 10:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
Wildhoney La Vida es Sueño Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oldham Posts: 2,215 Thanks: 90	I never knew about `COALESCE`. The amount of times I've used conditional statements to check if columns are NULL is unbelievable. Is that a recent addition? As it doesn't even ring a bell. __________________ The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.