Hi all,

I’ll be teaching from 
http://www.datacarpentry.org/sql-ecology-lesson/03-sql-joins-aliases/ soon, and 
realized there is a section here on IFNULL and NULLIF that I haven’t taught 
before. In all my years of using SQL, I’ve never even heard of these functions! 
So, I’m trying to learn this quickly.

I cannot seem to wrap my brain around how to do this Challenge, and there is no 
answer key. (Also, plural of “genus” is “genera”!)


  *   Write a query that returns the number of genus of the animals caught in 
each plot, using IFNULL to assume that unknown species are all of the genus 
“Rodent”.

I’m at a loss as to how to replace NULL values in genus field with a value 
based on what is in the species_id field.

Can someone help me out? Thanks!

~ Amy

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