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 ;-)
They actually support COALESCE now and explicit JOINs too.
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