Thanks Michael. I will stick with NVL for now as CASE is more verbose and is not easy to do a find and replace on. I will inquire...

Very nice article Michael on a topic where the details really count.

I had never heard of the COALESCE function before. We use Informix as our primary database and it...

Sorry but I was lost after the first part of the article. I don't know if you are a non-english speaker but you speak in incomplete sentences and it...