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What does coalesce(randomField, 0) do?

ryanfarley8189
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I'm looking through some old searches and came across this line. From all the documentation I've found, coalesce returns the first non-null field. In this case, what is the '0' representing? If randomField is null, does it just return a char 0?

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martin_mueller
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Null is the absence of a value, 0 is the number zero. coalesce(field, 0) returns the value of the field, or the number zero if the field is not set.

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martin_mueller
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Null is the absence of a value, 0 is the number zero. coalesce(field, 0) returns the value of the field, or the number zero if the field is not set.

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ryanfarley8189
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Great. Thanks!

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