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04 October 2007 14:41

ISNULL() or COALESCE()?

Both the functions are used to show/assign different value if the parameter is null. select isnull(null,'test'),coalesce(null,'test') But there are diiferences between the two isnull() is sql server specific The datatype/length of the result depends on...
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