Subject RE: [firebird-support] put zeroes where ther are nulls in view?
Author Lee Mayhew
Check the COALESCE function...

COALESCE( field_2, 0 )

should return 0.. its the equivalent of NVL in Oracle.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:m.tonies@...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:48 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] put zeroes where ther are nulls in view?




> I think you are a "artificial intelligence" prototype ;) The answer was
> correct, but totally useless ...

Or it could mean "Yes, it's possible - check the documentation
that comes with Firebird 1.5, although sparse, it is in there".

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS
SQL
Server.
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