NVL2

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The NVL2() function checks if the first argument is NOT NULL to produce the second argument, or the third argument otherwise. It works in a similar way as CASE expression

SELECT 
  nvl2(1,    2, 3),
  nvl2(null, 2, 3);

create.select(
  nvl2(val(1)             , 2, 3),
  nvl2(val(null), 2, 3)).fetch();

The result being

+------+------+
| nvl2 | nvl2 |
+------+------+
|    2 |    3 |
+------+------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

nvl2(val(1), 2, 3)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, SQLSERVER
iif(1 IS NOT NULL, 2, 3)

-- ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, FIREBIRD, HANA, MEMSQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, 
-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SYBASE, YUGABYTE
CASE
  WHEN 1 IS NOT NULL THEN 2
  ELSE 3
END

-- DB2, EXASOL, H2, HSQLDB, IGNITE, INFORMIX, MARIADB, ORACLE, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, TERADATA, VERTICA
nvl2(1, 2, 3)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.16, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : General functions : NVL2

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