SQL Server equivalent to Oracle's NULLS FIRST?

Question

So Oracle has NULLS FIRST, which I can use to have null values sorted at the top followed by my column value in descending order:

ORDER BY date_sent NULLS FI         


        

Answer 1

You can't control this, to my knowledge. And it looks like you have the correct approach with ISNULL.

With strings, I've used ISNULL(field, '') for the same purpose.