Changing a SUM returned NULL to zero

Question

I have a stored procedure as follows:

CREATE PROC [dbo].[Incidents]
(@SiteName varchar(200))
AS
SELECT
(  
    SELECT SUM(i.Logged)  
    FROM tbl_Sites s  
             


        

Answer 1

The easiest, and most readable, way I've found to accomplish this is through:

CREATE PROC [dbo].[Incidents]
(@SiteName varchar(200))

AS

    SELECT SUM(COALESCE(i.Logged, 0)) AS LoggedIncidents
    FROM tbl_Sites s  
    INNER JOIN tbl_Incidents i  
    ON s.Location = i.Location  
    WHERE s.Sites = @SiteName 
          AND i.[month] = DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, GetDate()) -1,0)  
    GROUP BY s.Sites