COALESCE - Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics SQL Reference

COALESCE

COALESCE ( <value-expression> {,<value-expression>}... )

The COALESCE function takes a list of expressions (all of which must be of the same type) and returns the first non-null argument from the list. If all of the expressions are null, COALESCE returns null.

Examples

Expression Result

COALESCE('chair')

chair

COALESCE('chair', null, 'sofa')

chair

COALESCE(null, null, 'sofa')

sofa

COALESCE(null, 2, 5)

2