Can we do customized COALESCE() in BigQuery?

Question

I've been using COALESCE since the first time I used BQ. So basically it looks for a non-NULL value within the bracket.

Is there any way for us to customize it? For example I have two fields that has values either ACTIVE or INACTIVE. I'd like to know whether one of the value from those fields is ACTIVE.

For example:

• COALESCE('Inactive', 'Active') returns 'Active'
• COALESCE('Active', 'Inactive') returns 'Active'
• COALESCE('Inactive', 'Inactive') returns 'Inactive'

Is it possible to use any function for this purpose? Thank you

Answer 1

Use below instead

SELECT 
  LEAST('Inactive', 'Active'), 
  LEAST('Active', 'Inactive'),
  LEAST('Inactive', 'Inactive')    

with output