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TL;DR

Understand how NULL works in SQL. Learn COALESCE, NULLIF, and IS NULL to write queries that handle missing data correctly.

Key concepts

  • SQL NULL
  • SQL COALESCE
  • SQL NULLIF
  • SQL IS NULL

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