diff --git a/lib/core/agent.py b/lib/core/agent.py
index b8c060335..30df3ccb7 100644
--- a/lib/core/agent.py
+++ b/lib/core/agent.py
@@ -331,10 +331,11 @@ class Agent(object):
             rootQuery = queries[Backend.getIdentifiedDbms()]
 
             if field.startswith("(CASE") or field.startswith("(IIF") or\
-            conf.noCast or Backend.isDbms(DBMS.SQLITE) and not isDBMSVersionAtLeast('3'):
+            conf.noCast:
                 nulledCastedField = field
             else:
-                nulledCastedField = rootQuery.cast.query % field
+                if not (Backend.isDbms(DBMS.SQLITE) and not isDBMSVersionAtLeast('3')):
+                    nulledCastedField = rootQuery.cast.query % field
                 if Backend.getIdentifiedDbms() in (DBMS.ACCESS,):
                     nulledCastedField = rootQuery.isnull.query % (nulledCastedField, nulledCastedField)
                 else:
diff --git a/xml/queries.xml b/xml/queries.xml
index 254242824..cb8b8c431 100644
--- a/xml/queries.xml
+++ b/xml/queries.xml
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
         <cast query="CAST(%s AS VARCHAR(8000))" dbms_version="&gt;=3.0"/>
         <!-- NOTE: On SQLite version 2 everything is stored as a string (Reference: http://www.mono-project.com/SQLite) -->
         <length query="LENGTH(%s)"/>
-        <isnull query="IFNULL(%s,' ')" dbms_version="&gt;=3.0"/>
+        <isnull query="COALESCE(%s,' ')"/>
         <delimiter query="||"/>
         <limit query="LIMIT %d,%d"/>
         <limitregexp query="\s+LIMIT\s+([\d]+)\s*\,\s*([\d]+)" query2="\s+LIMIT\s+([\d]+)"/>