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Redundant code in COALESCE call

Reports all the arguments except for the first expression that does not evaluate to NULL in COALESCE functions.

Example (MySQL):

SELECT COALESCE(NULL, NULL, NULL, 42, NULL, 'string') as a;

The first NOT NULL argument is 42, all other arguments will be grayed out.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SqlRedundantCodeInCoalesce
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | SQL

Inspection ID: SqlRedundantCodeInCoalesceInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SqlRedundantCodeInCoalesce

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025