MySQL 5.7 Release Notes
Table of Contents
- 12.1 Built-In Function and Operator Reference
- 12.2 Loadable Function Reference
- 12.3 Type Conversion in Expression Evaluation
- 12.4 Operators
- 12.5 Flow Control Functions
- 12.6 Numeric Functions and Operators
- 12.7 Date and Time Functions
- 12.8 String Functions and Operators
- 12.9 Full-Text Search Functions
- 12.9.1 Natural Language Full-Text Searches
- 12.9.2 Boolean Full-Text Searches
- 12.9.3 Full-Text Searches with Query Expansion
- 12.9.4 Full-Text Stopwords
- 12.9.5 Full-Text Restrictions
- 12.9.6 Fine-Tuning MySQL Full-Text Search
- 12.9.7 Adding a User-Defined Collation for Full-Text Indexing
- 12.9.8 ngram Full-Text Parser
- 12.9.9 MeCab Full-Text Parser Plugin
- 12.10 Cast Functions and Operators
- 12.11 XML Functions
- 12.12 Bit Functions and Operators
- 12.13 Encryption and Compression Functions
- 12.14 Locking Functions
- 12.15 Information Functions
- 12.16 Spatial Analysis Functions
- 12.16.1 Spatial Function Reference
- 12.16.2 Argument Handling by Spatial Functions
- 12.16.3 Functions That Create Geometry Values from WKT Values
- 12.16.4 Functions That Create Geometry Values from WKB Values
- 12.16.5 MySQL-Specific Functions That Create Geometry Values
- 12.16.6 Geometry Format Conversion Functions
- 12.16.7 Geometry Property Functions
- 12.16.8 Spatial Operator Functions
- 12.16.9 Functions That Test Spatial Relations Between Geometry Objects
- 12.16.10 Spatial Geohash Functions
- 12.16.11 Spatial GeoJSON Functions
- 12.16.12 Spatial Convenience Functions
- 12.17 JSON Functions
- 12.18 Functions Used with Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs)
- 12.19 Aggregate Functions
- 12.20 Miscellaneous Functions
- 12.21 Precision Math
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 5.6, “MySQL Server Loadable Functions”, and Section 23.2, “Using Stored Routines”. For the rules describing how the server interprets references to different kinds of functions, see Section 9.2.5, “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 5.1.10, “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