Instruction
Perfect! The last thing we'll show you in this part is how to get rid of those nasty NULL values in higher grouping levels. To that end, we'll use the COALESCE() function.
SELECT COALESCE(FullName, N'All Contestants') AS FullName, COALESCE(Category, N'All Categories') AS Category, Week, AVG(Score) AS AvgScore FROM ContestScore GROUP BY ROLLUP(FullName, Category), Week;
COALESCE() takes as many arguments as you wish and returns the first element that is not NULL. For instance,
COALESCE(FullName, 'All Contestants')will produce either the respective
FullName value or the string
'All Contestants' if
FullName is
NULL. Naturally, you can use any other text value instead of
'All Contestants'.
Exercise
Run the template query and see how it works.



