Hi,

In the next release of H2, ISNULL will be supported (as an alias for IFNULL).

Regards,
Thomas


On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Sebastian Paul
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using H2 via Hibernates EntityManager and noticed that the JPQL
> function "ISNULL" does not work (function not found). I looked into
> H2Dialect, and obviously translation of ISNULL is not covered. Maybe
> it should use registerFunction to map from ISNULL to IFNULL.
> However, COLESCE works fine, no need to use a custom dialect for this.
> Maybe COALESCE should be used in favor to ISNULL. The TSQL (MS SQL
> Server) documentation categorizes ISNULL as system function (http://
> msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184325.aspx) and CALESCE (together
> with CASE and NULLIF) as expressions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/
> library/ms190349.aspx).
> Strange that this does not work out-of-the-box with H2, and I did not
> find related information or bug reports. And why is ISNULL contained
> in the JPA 2 specification?
>
> Cheers, Sebastian
>
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