On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:15, Mario Weilguni wrote: > >If you want this behaviour you will have to explicitly handle it with > > COALESCE(). > > >regards, > >Lukas > > True. But there's a point where oracle is really better here, they named > "coalesce" "nvl" => a lot easier to type ;-)
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