Efficiency of using CASE WHEN … IS NOT NULL vs ISNULL/COALESCE?

In theory, the CASE shlould be because only one expression is evaluated. Several chained ISNULLs will all require processing.

I believe that ISNULL is more efficient. CASE statements are always evaluated first and I believe restrict the options available to the query optimiser.

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