David Hilbert. But you need to work with NULL values which are no actual values. Luckily Oracle provides us with a couple of functions to do the heavy lifting when it comes to checking for NULLs. If you want to see all the employees with no commission filled in you can issue a statement like this:. Notice NULL is not the same as 0 zero. In the one before it, it was possible to convert 2 to a varchar2 value. If expr1 contains a NULL value, then return expr3.
If the value of expr1 contains a non-NULL value, then return expr2. If they are not equal expr1 is returned. Expressions must be of the same data type, There is no implicit conversion performed. The coalesce function returns the first non-NULL value of the expressions in the list.
The list must consist of at least 2 values. When a column in a table is defined there is the possibility to have a default value for this column whenever it is inserted without a value. This is done on insert only. If you modify the default during the life of the table, the new default will be applied from that moment on.
Now how do you make sure a default is applied to columns already NULL? It can for instance be used to build a decision table. Consider the following decision table:. You'll need Dynamic SQL to do this; and it won't quick. Why do you need to do this? What output are you after? I'm going to really dislike the effort I'm going to have to put into this That makes thigns easier. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. ColumnName, V. Improve this answer. Larnu Larnu Why quote some values, and not the others, out of interest?
What would happen if a table's name had a ' it in? Blindly injecting strings is why injection is a problem Show 3 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. In some cases, the ISNULL function is used with the where condition but this usage method may lead to use indexes inefficiently. However, this query cannot use the created non-clustered index so it will read all index pages and then return the appropriate rows.
To eliminate this situation, we can make a little code modification in the query so that the query optimizer can use the indexes more efficiently. The following query returns some rows as like the previous one but it uses the indexes more efficiently.
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