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rohitphuge	3 Aug, 2008 - 11:52 PM Post #1
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dineeshd	RE: In MS-Sql How Check If A Column Value Is Null And Replace It With Othe 4 Aug, 2008 - 12:41 AM Post #2
D.I.C Addict Joined: 30 Jun, 2008 Posts: 579 Thanked: 16 times Dream Kudos: 575 My Contributions	SQL SELECT ISNULL(COLUMN_NAME, REPLACE_STRING) FROM TABLE_NAME Here "REPLACE_STRING" is the value you want to replace with if the column value is NULL. Hope this is what you are looking for...
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PsychoCoder	RE: In MS-Sql How Check If A Column Value Is Null And Replace It With Othe 4 Aug, 2008 - 12:48 AM Post #3
using DIC.Core; Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 9,483 Thanked: 161 times Dream Kudos: 9075 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, Boo.Net My Contributions	ISNULL() is indeed a good way to accomplish this task, but COALESCE has been proven to run a tad bit faster, and use less resources when executing. COALESCE is used like sql SELECT COALESCE(COLUMN_NAME, REPLACE_STRING) FROM TABLE_NAME Hope that helps some
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dineeshd	RE: In MS-Sql How Check If A Column Value Is Null And Replace It With Othe 4 Aug, 2008 - 12:55 AM Post #4
D.I.C Addict Joined: 30 Jun, 2008 Posts: 579 Thanked: 16 times Dream Kudos: 575 My Contributions	QUOTE(PsychoCoder @ 4 Aug, 2008 - 02:18 PM) COALESCE has been proven to run a tad bit faster, and use less resources when executing. Thanks for that information PsychoCoder I was not aware of that.
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