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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 13226

Return 0 if field is null in MySQL

In MySQL, is there a way to set the "total" fields to zero if they are NULL?

Here is what I have:

SELECT uo.order_id, uo.order_total, uo.order_status,
            (SELECT SUM(uop.price * uop.qty) 
             FROM uc_order_products uop 
             WHERE uo.order_id = uop.order_id
            ) AS products_subtotal,
            (SELECT SUM(upr.amount) 
             FROM uc_payment_receipts upr 
             WHERE uo.order_id = upr.order_id
            ) AS payment_received,
            (SELECT SUM(uoli.amount) 
             FROM uc_order_line_items uoli 
             WHERE uo.order_id = uoli.order_id
            ) AS line_item_subtotal
            FROM uc_orders uo
            WHERE uo.order_status NOT IN ("future", "canceled")
            AND uo.uid = 4172;

The data comes out fine, except the NULL fields should be 0.

How can I return 0 for NULL in MySQL?

Upvotes: 231

Views: 343256

Answers (5)

Gianpaolo Papa
Gianpaolo Papa

Reputation: 506

None of the above answers were complete for me. If your field is named field, so the selector should be the following one:

IFNULL(`field`,0) AS field

For example in a SELECT query:

SELECT IFNULL(`field`,0) AS field, `otherfield` FROM `mytable`

Hope this can help someone to not waste time.

Upvotes: 32

Krishna_K_Batham
Krishna_K_Batham

Reputation: 310

Yes IFNULL function will be working to achieve your desired result.

SELECT uo.order_id, uo.order_total, uo.order_status,
        (SELECT IFNULL(SUM(uop.price * uop.qty),0) 
         FROM uc_order_products uop 
         WHERE uo.order_id = uop.order_id
        ) AS products_subtotal,
        (SELECT IFNULL(SUM(upr.amount),0) 
         FROM uc_payment_receipts upr 
         WHERE uo.order_id = upr.order_id
        ) AS payment_received,
        (SELECT IFNULL(SUM(uoli.amount),0) 
         FROM uc_order_line_items uoli 
         WHERE uo.order_id = uoli.order_id
        ) AS line_item_subtotal
        FROM uc_orders uo
        WHERE uo.order_status NOT IN ("future", "canceled")
        AND uo.uid = 4172;

Upvotes: 5

ackuser
ackuser

Reputation: 5889

You can try something like this

IFNULL(NULLIF(X, '' ), 0)

Attribute X is assumed to be empty if it is an empty String, so after that you can declare as a zero instead of last value. In another case, it would remain its original value.

Anyway, just to give another way to do that.

Upvotes: 7

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881323

You can use coalesce(column_name,0) instead of just column_name. The coalesce function returns the first non-NULL value in the list.

I should mention that per-row functions like this are usually problematic for scalability. If you think your database may get to be a decent size, it's often better to use extra columns and triggers to move the cost from the select to the insert/update.

This amortises the cost assuming your database is read more often than written (and most of them are).

Upvotes: 31

Mark Byers
Mark Byers

Reputation: 838146

Use IFNULL:

IFNULL(expr1, 0)

From the documentation:

If expr1 is not NULL, IFNULL() returns expr1; otherwise it returns expr2. IFNULL() returns a numeric or string value, depending on the context in which it is used.

Upvotes: 445

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