na.rm=T for sql

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na.rm=T for sql awilson  2010-06-08 13:17
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i was curious about the missing values indicator if i was going to be undertaking sql scripts when dataset is uploaded. is there an R equivalent to na.rm=T in sql to be able to use the data in tabulation. thanks for any information.
 
 
Matthew Bellew responded:  2010-06-08 13:44
I had to look this up, so for the record

na.rm    a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.
 
awilson responded:  2010-06-08 14:10
R is really nice for dealing with this sort of mvindicator and changing it to NA for the purposes of analysis. however i was curious if there was a comparable method to be found in SQL scripting for NULL/NA values.

cheers
 
marki responded:  2010-06-09 10:17
Pretty sure that SQL can do what you want, but not sure exactly what you want to do. Do you want to filter out NULL values (WHERE X IS NOT NULL) or map them onto some other value (COALESCE(X, 'Other value'))