I\'m selecting the max of a column from a table. But there is one problem: if there are no rows in the table, it returns null.
How do I rewrite this oracle query, in the case I have no rows returned and want to hardcode a default value of \'0\' for a countand the sysdate information?
I\'m needing to select first and last name in a table which is working fine in the following SQL, but the part that isn\'t working is the NVL function. The file should show all pilots at a company tha
I want to write the following query as a Hibernate Criteria query: select to_char(nvl(ol.updated_datetime, ol.created_datetime), \'dd/mm/yyyy\'), sum(discount_price)
I have a table of orders for particular products, and a table of products that are on sale. (It\'s not ideal database structure, but that\'s out of my control.) What I want to do is outer join the ord
Does anyone know, why Oracle\'s NVL (and NVL2) function always evaluate the second parameter, even if the first parameter is not NULL?