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See how ISNULL and COALESCE behave in different situations and ensure you know which one to pick when.
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One of the lesser used functions is COALESCE(), used to allow you to return one value from a list of those that are potentially NULL. This short pieces gives a few examples where this is useful?
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COALESCE in SQL Server
Sandeep Mittal provides an introduction to the COALESCE function and shows how to use it.
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