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NVL
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The NVL() function (or also the ISNULL() or IFNULL() functions) produces the first argument if it is NOT NULL, otherwise the second argument. It is a special case of the COALESCE function, which takes any number of arguments.
SELECT nvl(null, 1);
create.select(nvl(null, 1)).fetch();
The result being
+-----+ | nvl | +-----+ | 1 | +-----+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
nvl(null, 1)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS iif(NULL IS NULL, 1, NULL) -- ASE, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, HANA, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, -- SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB coalesce( NULL, 1 ) -- AURORA_MYSQL, BIGQUERY, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SQLITE ifnull( NULL, 1 ) -- DB2, H2, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, ORACLE nvl( NULL, 1 ) -- DERBY coalesce( ?, 1 )
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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