"miracles are for the ignorant, the poor, and the dying."
coalesce
co·a·lesce
ˌkōəˈles/
verb
come together and form one mass or whole.
"the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams"
combine (elements) in a mass or whole.
"to help coalesce the community, they established an office"
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The COALESCE expression is a syntactic shortcut for the CASE expression. That is, the code COALESCE (expression1,...n) is rewritten by the query optimizer as ...
