How can I change NULL to 0 when getting a single value from a SQL function?

Question

I have a query that counts the price of all items between two dates. Here is the select statement:

SELECT SUM(Price) AS TotalPrice 
FROM Inventory
WHERE (DateAdd         


        

Answer 1

ORACLE/PLSQL:

NVL FUNCTION

SELECT NVL(SUM(Price), 0) AS TotalPrice 
FROM Inventory
WHERE (DateAdded BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate)

This SQL statement would return 0 if the SUM(Price) returned a null value. Otherwise, it would return the SUM(Price) value.