SQL replace all NULLs

Question

I have a big table with some NULLs in it. What is the easiest possible way to select from the table with 0\'s instead of NULLs.

Or if there is no easy way to do that

Answer 1

Alternatively to ISNULL, you can use COALESCE, which is ANSI SQL compatible.

select coalesce(yourcolumn, 0)

There is lots of columns, I don't want to have to go through each one with something like ISNULL(FieldName,0) AS FieldName.

You can't always get what you want. Too bad. This is the way to go: column by column.