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Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:03 PM
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Wasn't aware of this behaviour of isnull !
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Noel McKinney (11/3/2009)
This is the main reason I make it a habit to use COALESCE rather than ISNULL unless there's a reason I need the behavior of ISNULL.

I wasn't aware of that ISNULL property or that COALESCE does NOT truncate that way. I've been switching to using COALESCE on occasion because I understand that it's ansi-standard, but now I have an additional reason to use COALECSE.

Thank for a good question.
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