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Which MySQL function is used to find first non-NULL value from a list of values?
We can use MySQL COALESCE() function to get the first non-NULL value as output from a list of values. In other words, this function will check all the values until non-null value found. It can take one or more than one argument. It is having the following syntax:
COALESCE(value1, value2, …, valueN)
Example
Following is an example to demonstrate it −
mysql> Select COALESCE(NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ram', 'Aarav', NULL); +--------------------------------------------------+ | COALESCE(NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ram', 'Aarav', NULL) | +--------------------------------------------------+ | Ram | +--------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 20-Jun-2020
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