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MySQL 8.3 Reference Manual  /  Functions and Operators

Chapter 14 Functions and Operators

Table of Contents

14.1 Built-In Function and Operator Reference
14.2 Loadable Function Reference
14.3 Type Conversion in Expression Evaluation
14.4 Operators
14.4.1 Operator Precedence
14.4.2 Comparison Functions and Operators
14.4.3 Logical Operators
14.4.4 Assignment Operators
14.5 Flow Control Functions
14.6 Numeric Functions and Operators
14.6.1 Arithmetic Operators
14.6.2 Mathematical Functions
14.7 Date and Time Functions
14.8 String Functions and Operators
14.8.1 String Comparison Functions and Operators
14.8.2 Regular Expressions
14.8.3 Character Set and Collation of Function Results
14.9 Full-Text Search Functions
14.9.1 Natural Language Full-Text Searches
14.9.2 Boolean Full-Text Searches
14.9.3 Full-Text Searches with Query Expansion
14.9.4 Full-Text Stopwords
14.9.5 Full-Text Restrictions
14.9.6 Fine-Tuning MySQL Full-Text Search
14.9.7 Adding a User-Defined Collation for Full-Text Indexing
14.9.8 ngram Full-Text Parser
14.9.9 MeCab Full-Text Parser Plugin
14.10 Cast Functions and Operators
14.11 XML Functions
14.12 Bit Functions and Operators
14.13 Encryption and Compression Functions
14.14 Locking Functions
14.15 Information Functions
14.16 Spatial Analysis Functions
14.16.1 Spatial Function Reference
14.16.2 Argument Handling by Spatial Functions
14.16.3 Functions That Create Geometry Values from WKT Values
14.16.4 Functions That Create Geometry Values from WKB Values
14.16.5 MySQL-Specific Functions That Create Geometry Values
14.16.6 Geometry Format Conversion Functions
14.16.7 Geometry Property Functions
14.16.8 Spatial Operator Functions
14.16.9 Functions That Test Spatial Relations Between Geometry Objects
14.16.10 Spatial Geohash Functions
14.16.11 Spatial GeoJSON Functions
14.16.12 Spatial Aggregate Functions
14.16.13 Spatial Convenience Functions
14.17 JSON Functions
14.17.1 JSON Function Reference
14.17.2 Functions That Create JSON Values
14.17.3 Functions That Search JSON Values
14.17.4 Functions That Modify JSON Values
14.17.5 Functions That Return JSON Value Attributes
14.17.6 JSON Table Functions
14.17.7 JSON Schema Validation Functions
14.17.8 JSON Utility Functions
14.18 Replication Functions
14.18.1 Group Replication Functions
14.18.2 Functions Used with Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs)
14.18.3 Asynchronous Replication Channel Failover Functions
14.18.4 Position-Based Synchronization Functions
14.19 Aggregate Functions
14.19.1 Aggregate Function Descriptions
14.19.2 GROUP BY Modifiers
14.19.3 MySQL Handling of GROUP BY
14.19.4 Detection of Functional Dependence
14.20 Window Functions
14.20.1 Window Function Descriptions
14.20.2 Window Function Concepts and Syntax
14.20.3 Window Function Frame Specification
14.20.4 Named Windows
14.20.5 Window Function Restrictions
14.21 Performance Schema Functions
14.22 Internal Functions
14.23 Miscellaneous Functions
14.24 Precision Math
14.24.1 Types of Numeric Values
14.24.2 DECIMAL Data Type Characteristics
14.24.3 Expression Handling
14.24.4 Rounding Behavior
14.24.5 Precision Math Examples

Expressions can be used at several points in SQL statements, such as in the ORDER BY or HAVING clauses of SELECT statements, in the WHERE clause of a SELECT, DELETE, or UPDATE statement, or in SET statements. Expressions can be written using values from several sources, such as literal values, column values, NULL, variables, built-in functions and operators, loadable functions, and stored functions (a type of stored object).

This chapter describes the built-in functions and operators that are permitted for writing expressions in MySQL. For information about loadable functions and stored functions, see Section 7.7, “MySQL Server Loadable Functions”, and Section 27.2, “Using Stored Routines”. For the rules describing how the server interprets references to different kinds of functions, see Section 11.2.5, “Function Name Parsing and Resolution”.

An expression that contains NULL always produces a NULL value unless otherwise indicated in the documentation for a particular function or operator.

Note

By default, there must be no whitespace between a function name and the parenthesis following it. This helps the MySQL parser distinguish between function calls and references to tables or columns that happen to have the same name as a function. However, spaces around function arguments are permitted.

To tell the MySQL server to accept spaces after function names by starting it with the --sql-mode=IGNORE_SPACE option. (See Section 7.1.11, “Server SQL Modes”.) Individual client programs can request this behavior by using the CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE option for mysql_real_connect(). In either case, all function names become reserved words.

For the sake of brevity, some examples in this chapter display the output from the mysql program in abbreviated form. Rather than showing examples in this format:

mysql> SELECT MOD(29,9);
+-----------+
| mod(29,9) |
+-----------+
|         2 |
+-----------+
1 rows in set (0.00 sec)

This format is used instead:

mysql> SELECT MOD(29,9);
        -> 2