Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values

Question

I\'m working on an application where one can get information on movies from a database as well as add, update and delete the movies. In the database I have three tables (Movie,

Answer 1

The simplest answer is to replace the nulls with non-null values. Try:

ALTER PROCEDURE usp_GetMovieGenreByMovieID
@MovieID int
AS
BEGIN
    BEGIN TRY
        SELECT m.MovieID, 
               coalesce(g.GenreID,0) GenreID, 
               coalesce(mg.MovieGenreID,0) MovieGenreID, 
               coalesce(g.Genre, 'Not Applicable') Genre
        FROM Movie AS m
        LEFT JOIN MovieGenre AS mg
            ON m.MovieId = mg.MovieID
        LEFT JOIN Genre AS g
            ON mg.GenreID = g.GenreID
        WHERE m.MovieID = @MovieID
    END TRY
    BEGIN CATCH
        RAISERROR ('Error while trying to receive genre(s).',16,1)
    END CATCH
END