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NVL2

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The NVL2() function checks if the first argument is NOT NULL to produce the second argument, or the third argument otherwise. It works in a similar way as the IIF function or the CASE expression

SELECT
  nvl2(1,    2, 3),
  nvl2(null, 2, 3);
create.select(
  nvl2(val(1)             , 2, 3),
  nvl2(val((Integer) null), 2, 3)).fetch();

The result being

+------+------+
| nvl2 | nvl2 |
+------+------+
|    2 |    3 |
+------+------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

nvl2(val(1), 2, 3)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, SQLServer

iif(1 IS NOT NULL, 2, 3)

ASE, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, DuckDB, Firebird, Hana, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Trino, YugabyteDB

CASE
  WHEN 1 IS NOT NULL THEN 2
  ELSE 3
END

DB2, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica

nvl2(1, 2, 3)
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