Coalesce

A metal/hardcore band from Kansas City, Missouri. The members for most of the band's existence were: Sean Ingram (vocals), Jes Stieneger (guitar), James Dewees (drums) and Stacy Hilt (bass). They originally formed in 1994 under the name of Breach, but since a band by that name already existed, they changed it to Coalesce.

Discography:

Coalesce - Soylent Green/Chapter Records

1. Harvest of Maturity
2. On Their Behalf

002 - Earache Records

1. 73-C
2. Grain of Salt
3. Simulcast

A Safe Place - Second Nature/Edison Recordings

1. A Safe Place
2. Blend As Well

Give Them Rope - Edison Recordings

1. Have Patience
2. One On The Ground
3. Cut To Length
4. For All You Are
5. Still It Sells
6. Chain Smoking
7. Did It Pay The Rent?
8. Every Reason To
9. I Am Not The First
10. This Is The Last
11. I Took A Year

The Get Up Kids Split 7" - Second Nature Records

1. Giving Up On This One (cover of the Get Up Kids song Burned Bridges)

In These Black Days - Hydrahead Records

1. Supernaught (Black Sabbath cover)

Split EP with Boy Sets Fire - Hydrahead Records

1. Vehicle (Boy Sets Fire cover)
2. In The Wilderness (Boy Sets Fire cover)
3. Bob Junior (CD version only)

Functioning On Impatience - Second Nature Records

1. You Can't Kill Us All
2. Reoccuring Ache of Monotony Still Running
3. A New Language
4. My Love For Extremes
5. On Being A Bastard
6. Measured In Gray
7. A Disgust For Details

There Is Nothing New Under The Sun - Hydrahead Records

1. Black Dog
2. Heartbreaker
3. Thank You
4. Whole Lotta Love
5. That's The Way
6. Out On The Tiles
7. Immigrant Song

012: Revolution In Just Listening - Relapse Records

1. What Happens On The Road Always Comes Home
2. Cowards.com
3. Burn Everything That Bears Our Name
4. While The Jackass Operation Spins Its Wheels
5. Sometimes Selling Out Is Waking Up
6. Where The Hell Is Rick Thorne These Days?
7. Jesus In The Year 2000/Next On The Shit List
8. Counting Murders, Drinking Beers
9. They Always Come In Falls

They broke up numerous times, but after releasing 012 it looked as thought they had broken up for good. James Dewees went on to play keyboards in The Get Up Kids and some other members, or former members, went on form The Casket Lottery. However, in late 2001, it was announced via their website that they had reformed with a new guitarist and would be touring in March and April of 2002.

Coalesce's sound is ridiculously intense. Drums are pummeled violently, Sean rips his throat up screaming and growling. While it may sound basic, it's not. All of the members are quite competent musicians. James especially gets credit for lots of quick time changes, odd time signatures, and insanely fast tempos. Very intense, and certainly not everyone's cup of tea.

And what's with the album of Led Zeppelin covers? Weird.

T-SQL statement that returns the first non-null expression from among it's arguments.

Usage
Let's say you have a table that has three columns that describe the wages of an employee: curHourlyWage, curSalary, and curCommission. Each employee can only have one method of calculating their paycheck. You could do the select statement weeding out the null values in your code OR you could use the coalesce function as follows:

SELECT CAST(COALESCE(curHourlyWage * 40 * 52, curSalary, curCommission * intNumSales) AS money) AS 'Total Salary' FROM wages

This statement would pull the first non-null value found, do any calculations, then return the value as 'Total Salary.' So for a table such as:

Employee | Hourly Wage | Salary | Commission
John Doe      16.35
Sally Mo                                                    75.00
Nate O.                                  82,000

You would get the following returned to you:

Employee | Total Salary
John Doe     34,008 (assuming 40hrs x 52weeks)
Sally Mo        30,000 (assuming 400 sales)
Nate O.         82,000 (assuming I hit the lottery next week and make that donation I want to)

Co`a*lesce" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coalesced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Coalescing.] [L. coalescere, coalitium; co- + alescere to grow up, incho. fr. alere to nourish. See Aliment, n.]

1.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

2.

To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell.

Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

Syn. -- See Add.

 

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