Re: Null Conversion

At 06:30 PM 8/14/01 -0700, you wrote:
>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)
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Thanks, this works. Tried the other suggestion:

sal * 12 * CAST(COMM AS float8) AS "Annual Income"

which unfortunately didn't work.