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This interview question is not that common. My friend faced this interview
question, when he attended an interview in London. My friend said we can use 
COALESCE() in SQL Server. Then the interviewer said, that's very good answer,
but do you know of any other way? 

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Apart from using COALESCE(), there are 2 other ways to replace NULL values in
SQL Server. Let's understand this with an example.
 

I have a Table tblEmployee, as shown in the diagram below. Some of the
Employees does not have gender. All those employees who does not have
Gender, must have a replacement value of 'No Gender' in your query result.
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replace NULL values in SQL Server
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Manish September 9, 2013 at 3:04 AM

Coalesce is use for more than two columns where as
Isnull works only for two column. Also you can use
coalesce function in joining to get first not null value
from more than two different table.

Sangars Bhargav July 31, 2016 at 7:41 PM

the major difference is coalesce replaces the null
value with the first not null value among the
arguments whereas isnull replaces the null value with
specified replacement value

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vijay negi January 15, 2016 at 12:23 PM

Some how iif() and nullif also try to do something
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