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Ciupaz
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Italy
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  10:02:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello all,
having this query:

DECLARE @k DECIMAL(18,10)
SELECT @k = ISNULL(value,0) FROM app.T_Fatt
WHERE UP_ID = 829
PRINT @k

because the record with UP_ID how can I force to return 0 instead of nothing?

Luigi

James K
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  10:04:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Initialize it to zero.
DECLARE @k DECIMAL(18,10) = 0;
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Lamprey
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  12:12:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
James, solution will just fine. However, we use a slightly different pattern to help avoid situations where a query could return more than one row (thus assigning a random value to the variable). With this pattern SQL will error if more than one vaue is returned and it is mroe ovbious what you are trying to achomplish (i.e.: you want a zero result and not a null):
DECLARE @Foo TABLE (ID INT, Val VARCHAR(20))

DECLARE @Bar INT


SET @Bar = COALESCE
	(
		(
			SELECT ID
			FROM @Foo
			WHERE Val = 'Test'
		)
		, 0
	)

SELECT @Bar
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Ciupaz
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Italy
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  14:14:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
They're both useful solutions.
Thank you all.

Luigi
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James K
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  18:46:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Lamprey! Ciupaz, if there is the possibility that there would be more than one row for a given UP_ID, use Lamprey's suggestion - especially so if for some of those rows the value column happens to have NULLs.
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