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gpsk7
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Posted - 2005-09-28 : 02:55:21

I am running the following querry to display the sum of length of 2 fields:

SELECT (datalength(field1) + datalength(field2))
FROM Table1

This query fails if it encounters a NULL value in any of the field. So is there any way around to check the NULL value in the fields before adding the lengths and if it founds NULL then add '0' to the length.

cheers.

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-28 : 03:03:21

Try this

SELECT (datalength(IsNull(field1,'')) + datalength(IsNull(field2,'')))
FROM Table1

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

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