http://otaqui.com/blog/398/selecting-a-different-table-column-if-the-original-record-is-null-in-mysql-using-ifnull/ Pete Otaqui's blog about web development and everything else Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://otaqui.com/blog/398/selecting-a-different-table-column-if-the-original-record-is-null-in-mysql-using-ifnull/comment-page-1/#comment-562 pete Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:03:17 +0000 http://otaqui.com/blog/?p=398#comment-562 My Uncle (Uncle-In-Law?) Ian points out that you can also use COALESCE() in this case, which takes an arbitrary number of arguments and will return the first non-NULL value My Uncle (Uncle-In-Law?) Ian points out that you can also use COALESCE() in this case, which takes an arbitrary number of arguments and will return the first non-NULL value

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