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What is the difference between coalesce() & isnull()?

Answer Posted / Gyandev Kumar

{"answers": ["Both Coalesce() and ISNULL() are used to handle NULL values, but they behave slightly differently. Coalesce() returns the first non-null value in a list of arguments while ISNULL() replaces all null values with a specified value."]}

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