Replacing NULL with 0 in a SQL server query

Question

I have developed a query, and in the results for the first three columns I get NULL. How can I replace it with 0?

  Select c.rund         


        

Answer 1

Add an else to your case statements so that they default to zero if the test condition is not found. At the moment if the test condition isn't found NULL is being passed to the SUM() function.

  Select c.rundate, 
    sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Succeeded' then 1 else 0 end) as Succeeded, 
    sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Failed' then 1 else 0 end) as Failed, 
    sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Cancelled' then 1 else 0 end) as Cancelled, 
    count(*) as Totalrun from
    (    Select a.name,case when b.run_status=0 Then 'Failed' when b.run_status=1 Then 'Succeeded'
    when b.run_status=2 Then 'Retry' Else 'Cancelled' End as Runstatus,
    ---cast(run_date as datetime)
                cast(substring(convert(varchar(8),run_date),1,4)+'/'+substring(convert(varchar(8),run_date),5,2)+'/'          +substring(convert(varchar(8),run_date),7,2) as Datetime) as RunDate
    from msdb.dbo.sysjobs as a(nolock) inner join msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory as b(nolock) 
    on a.job_id=b.job_id
    where a.name='AI'
    and b.step_id=0) as c
    group by 
    c.rundate

Answer 2

sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Succeeded' then 1 else 0 end) as Succeeded, 
sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Failed' then 1 else 0 end) as Failed, 
sum(case when c.runstatus = 'Cancelled' then 1 else 0 end) as Cancelled, 

the issue here is that without the else statement, you are bound to receive a Null when the run status isn't the stated status in the column description. Adding anything to Null will result in Null, and that is the issue with this query.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

A Simple way is

UPDATE tbl_name SET fild_name = value WHERE fild_name IS NULL

Answer 4

If you are using Presto, AWS Athena etc, there is no ISNULL() function. Instead, use:

SELECT COALESCE(myColumn, 0 ) FROM myTable

Answer 5

You can use both of these methods but there are differences:

SELECT ISNULL(col1, 0 ) FROM table1
SELECT COALESCE(col1, 0 ) FROM table1

Comparing COALESCE() and ISNULL():

1. The ISNULL function and the COALESCE expression have a similar purpose but can behave differently.

2. Because ISNULL is a function, it is evaluated only once. As described above, the input values for the COALESCE expression can be evaluated multiple times.

3. Data type determination of the resulting expression is different. ISNULL uses the data type of the first parameter, COALESCE follows the CASE expression rules and returns the data type of value with the highest precedence.

4. The NULLability of the result expression is different for ISNULL and COALESCE. The ISNULL return value is always considered NOT NULLable (assuming the return value is a non-nullable one) whereas COALESCE with non-null parameters is considered to be NULL. So the expressions ISNULL(NULL, 1) and COALESCE(NULL, 1) although equivalent have different nullability values. This makes a difference if you are using these expressions in computed columns, creating key constraints or making the return value of a scalar UDF deterministic so that it can be indexed as shown in the following example.

-- This statement fails because the PRIMARY KEY cannot accept NULL values -- and the nullability of the COALESCE expression for col2 -- evaluates to NULL.

CREATE TABLE #Demo 
( 
    col1 integer NULL, 
    col2 AS COALESCE(col1, 0) PRIMARY KEY, 
    col3 AS ISNULL(col1, 0) 
); 

-- This statement succeeds because the nullability of the -- ISNULL function evaluates AS NOT NULL.

CREATE TABLE #Demo 
( 
    col1 integer NULL, 
    col2 AS COALESCE(col1, 0), 
    col3 AS ISNULL(col1, 0) PRIMARY KEY 
);

5. Validations for ISNULL and COALESCE are also different. For example, a NULL value for ISNULL is converted to int whereas for COALESCE, you must provide a data type.

6. ISNULL takes only 2 parameters whereas COALESCE takes a variable number of parameters.

   if you need to know more here is the full document from msdn.

Answer 6

Wrap your column in this code.

 ISNULL(Yourcolumn, 0)

Maybe check why you are getting nulls