On 10 Nov 2013, at 12:34pm, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you need a particular "default" value instead of a NULL, use the
> coalesce() function.
> 
> select coalesce(max(current_rank),0) FROM playersinleague WHERE id = 1;

Purely for clarity's sake, and not to say coalesce() doesn't work, I suggest 
you use ifnull() instead.

Also, I agree with John's analysis: max() of zero items is NULL.  I'm not sure 
what stdev() of zero items is, but fortunately SQLite doesn't have that 
function.

Simon.
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