Re: Help with UDFs or stored procedures

Thanks for the clarification - I actually use COALESCE more often than VALUE.

Happy New Year!
Vern

At 11:54 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:

On 12/29/06, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As to the hyphen for NULL, I believe it is not changeable - that is
> why I often use the following
>
> values(null_capable_column, ' ')
>
> This uses the value of the column if it is not NULL and a blank when
> it is - of course, use a zero if column is numeric.


Thanks again Vern!  That's exactly what I would use in that scenario.
Clarification for the archives:  It is "value" without the 's'.

- Dan
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