Question

I’m trying to get a DOUBLE type value out of my database for use in a report. If this value is NULL, then the report should state "N/A".

I’m just having some difficulty with the sql to make this work:

SELECT CAST(IFNULL(billablerate, 'N/A'), CHAR(5)) AS billablerate FROM rates

Something tells me that these functions can’t be combined like this, but I don’t know how else to get them both in.

Any assistance would be great!

Answer 1

try this:

SELECT IFNULL(CAST(billablerate AS char (5)), 'N/A') AS billablerate FROM rates

works for:

SELECT IFNULL(CAST(null AS char (5)), 'N/A') AS exp; // N/A
SELECT IFNULL(CAST(10 AS char (5)), 'N/A') AS exp; // 10