On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero
> attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. 
> 
> In Oracle I could do:
> 
> sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income"
> 
> where COMM is an attribute (a salesman commission, in an employes table)
> which has null values. This allows null commissions for non salesmen to
> give a zero calculated value. The NVL converts a null into zero.

Try coalesce(COMM, 0)




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