SQLite equivalent to ISNULL(), NVL(), IFNULL() or COALESCE()

Question

I\'d like to avoid having many checks like the following in my code:

myObj.someStringField = rdr.IsDBNull(someOrdinal) 
                            ? string.         


        

Answer 1

Try this

ifnull(X,Y)  

e.g

select ifnull(InfoDetail,'') InfoDetail; -- this will replace null with ''
select ifnull(NULL,'THIS IS NULL');-- More clearly....

The ifnull() function returns a copy of its first non-NULL argument, or NULL if both arguments are NULL. Ifnull() must have exactly 2 arguments. The ifnull() function is equivalent to coalesce() with two arguments.