How to Use Coalesce in SQL Server in SQL Server
Imagine you're looking at a SQL Server integer column where some rows are null:
select day, tickets
from stats; day | tickets
------------+---------
2020-02-01 | 1
2020-02-02 | null
2020-02-03 | 3
Instead of having that null, you might want that row to be 0. To do that, use the coalesce() function, which returns the first non-null argument it's passed:
select day, coalesce(tickets, 0)
from stats; day | tickets
------------+---------
2020-02-01 | 1
2020-02-02 | 0
2020-02-03 | 3
