COALESCE
Returns the first nonnull expression among its arguments.

Syntax
COALESCE ( expression [ ,...n ] )

Arguments
expression

Is an expression of any type.

n

Is a placeholder indicating that multiple expressions can be specified. All expressions must be of the same type or must be implicitly convertible to the same type.

Return Types
Returns the same value as expression.

Remarks
If all arguments are NULL, COALESCE returns NULL.

COALESCE(expression1,...n) is equivalent to this CASE function:

CASE
WHEN (expression1 IS NOT NULL) THEN expression1
...
WHEN (expressionN IS NOT NULL) THEN expressionN
ELSE NULL