On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero
> attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query.
>
> In Oracle I could do:
>
> sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income"
>
> where COMM is an attribute (a salesman commission, in an employes table)
> which has null values. This allows null commissions for non salesmen to
> give a zero calculated value. The NVL converts a null into zero.
Try coalesce(COMM, 0)