coalesce

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To join into a single mass or whole.

   “The droplets coalesced into a puddle.”

2. fiil To form from different pieces or elements.

   “The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.”

3. fiil To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
4. fiil To merge, to intermingle freely.

   “It was not a wise thing to enter a close clique, my good madam, until you had examined both them and yourself, and considered how far you were likely to coalesce.”

5. fiil To convert a null value to a defined value.

   “You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.”