Re: Oracle NVL equivalent for MySQL?
| From: | Steve Werby | Date: | Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:13:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle NVL equivalent for MySQL? | ||
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"Dominick Vansevenant" <dv@mobyus.com> wrote:
> Maybe a bit offtopic, but is there an equivalent for the NVL function in
> Oracle for MySQL?
>
> NVL is a function that returns a given result when a value is null
You do know there's a MySQL list, don't you? There's no such beast in
MySQL, but you can do this:
IF( my_field IS NULL, your_expression, my_field)
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