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SQL Data Types

BIGINT

BOOLEAN

CHAR

DATE

DECIMAL

Calculations with DECIMAL Values

Examples of DECIMAL Calculations

DOUBLE PRECISION

INTEGER

IPV4

IPV6

MACADDR

MACADDR8

REAL

SMALLINT

TIME

TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

UUID

VARCHAR

Trailing Blanks in Character Data

Data Type Casting

Explicit Casting

Implicit Casting

Implicit Casting Examples

SQL String Constants

C-style Escape Sequences in String Constants

Unicode Escape Sequences in String Constants

Escape Sequences for Non-Printable Characters

SQL Commands

SQL Identifiers

ABORT

ALTER DATABASE

ALTER DATABASE ADD REPLICA

ALTER DATABASE ALTER REPLICA

ALTER DATABASE DROP REPLICA

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

ALTER PROCEDURE

ALTER REMOTE SERVER

ALTER ROLE

ALTER SCHEMA

ALTER SEQUENCE

ALTER SYSTEM

ALTER TABLE

ALTER USER

ALTER VIEW

ALTER WLM PROFILE

ALTER WLM RESOURCE POOL

ALTER WLM RULE

BEGIN

CALL

CANCEL

CLOSE

COMMENT ON

COMMIT

CREATE DATABASE

CREATE EXTERNAL MOUNT

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE

USING Options

External Table Examples

CREATE KEY

CREATE PROCEDURE

CREATE REMOTE SERVER

CREATE ROLE

CREATE SEQUENCE

CREATE SCHEMA

CREATE TABLE

CREATE TABLE Examples

Distribution Options

Partitioning Options

Sorted and Clustered Tables

Disabling Join Elimination for LEFT Joins

CREATE TABLE AS

CREATE USER

CREATE VIEW

CREATE WLM PROFILE

CREATE WLM RESOURCE POOL

CREATE WLM RULE

DEALLOCATE

DECLARE

DELETE

DESCRIBE

DROP BACKUP CHAIN

DROP DATABASE

DROP EXTERNAL MOUNT

DROP KEY

DROP OWNED BY

DROP PROCEDURE

DROP REMOTE SERVER

DROP ROLE

DROP SCHEMA

DROP SEQUENCE

DROP TABLE

DROP USER

DROP VIEW

DROP WLM PROFILE

DROP WLM RESOURCE POOL

DROP WLM RULE

END

EXECUTE

EXPLAIN

FETCH

GRANT

ON DATABASE

ON KEY

ON PROCEDURE

ON ROLE

ON SCHEMA

ON SEQUENCE

ON SYSTEM

ON TABLE

ROLE

Abbreviations for ACLs

HELP

IMPORT SSL TRUST

INSERT

LOCK SEQUENCE

MOVE cursor

MOVE query

PREPARE

REASSIGN OWNED BY

RELEASE SAVEPOINT

RESET

RESTART query

REVOKE

REVOKE SSL TRUST

ROLLBACK

ROLLBACK DATABASE

ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT

SAVEPOINT

SELECT

WITH Clause

SELECT List

FROM Clause

WHERE Clause

GROUP BY Clause

HAVING Clause

WINDOW Clause

ORDER BY Clause

LIMIT Clause

OFFSET Clause

UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT

Subqueries

Subquery Examples

Correlated Subqueries

SELECT INTO

SET

SET ROLE

SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION

SHOW

SHOW SSL CA

SHOW SSL IDENTITY

SHOW SSL SYSTEM

SHOW SSL TRUST

START TRANSACTION

TABLE

TRUNCATE

UPDATE

SQL Functions and Operators

Supported Functions and Return Types

SQL Conditions

Logical Operators

Comparison Operators

ANY

BETWEEN

EXISTS

IN

String Functions

ASCII

BIT_LENGTH

BTRIM

CHAR_LENGTH

CHR

CONCAT, ||

CONCAT_WS

DECRYPT (deprecated)

DECRYPT_KS

DLE_DST

ENCODE

ENCRYPT (deprecated)

ENCRYPT_KS

ENCRYPT_KS Examples

Encryption and Decryption Algorithms

HASH

HASH4

HASH8

HMAC

HMAC_KS

INITCAP

INSTR

LE_DST

LEFT

LENGTH

LOWER

LPAD

LTRIM, RTRIM

MD5

NYSIIS

OCTET_LENGTH

POSITION

REPEAT

REPLACE

REVERSE

RIGHT

RPAD

SPLIT_PART

STRPOS

SUBSTR

SUBSTRING

TO_ASCII

TO_HEX

TRANSLATE

TRIM

UPPER

Pattern Matching

SQL Operators and Pattern Matching Functions

SQL Regex Operators

REGEXP_REPLACE

REGEXP_INSTR

REGEXP_EXTRACT

REGEXP_LIKE

LIKE

SIMILAR TO

SIMILAR TO: Best Practices

SUBSTRING (Pattern Match)

Simple Regex Examples

Regular Expression Details

Character Classes and Escaped Special Characters

Quantifiers

Anchors

Grouping Constructs

Alternation Constructs

Back References

Flags

Datetime Functions

ADD_MONTHS

AGE

AT TIME ZONE

CURRENT_DATE

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

CURRENT_UTC_TIMESTAMP()

DATEADD

DATEDIFF

DATENAME

DATE_PART

DATE_TRUNC

DAY

DAYS_BETWEEN

EOMONTH

EXTRACT

GETDATE

JUSTIFY_DAYS, _HOURS, _INTERVAL

LAST_DAY

LOCALTIME

LOCALTIMESTAMP

MAKE_DATE

MAKE_INTERVAL

MAKE_TIME

MAKE_TIMESTAMP

MAKE_TIMESTAMPTZ

MONTH

MONTHS_BETWEEN

NEXT_DAY

NOW()

OVERLAPS

TIMEOFDAY()

TIMEZONE

YEAR

Supported Dateparts

Mathematical Functions

Mathematical Operators

ABS

ACOS

ASIN

CBRT

CEIL

COS

DEGREES

DIV

ERF

EXP

FLOOR

LN

LOG

MOD

POWER

PROBNORM

RADIANS

RANDOM()

ROUND

SIGN

SIN

SQRT

TRUNC

Aggregate Functions

AVG

COUNT

COUNT(DISTINCT)

GROUP_CONCAT

LISTAGG

MAX

MEDIAN()

MIN

PERCENTILE_CONT

PERCENTILE_DISC

STDDEV_SAMP and STDDEV_POP

STRING_AGG

SUM

VAR_SAMP and VAR_POP

Window Functions

Syntax for Window Functions

AVG (window function)

COUNT (window function)

CUME_DIST

DENSE_RANK

FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE

LEAD, LAG

MAX (window function)

MEDIAN (window function)

MIN (window function)

NTILE

PERCENT_RANK

PERCENTILE_CONT (window function)

PERCENTILE_DISC (window function)

RANK

ROW_NUMBER

STDDEV_SAMP and STDDEV_POP (window functions)

SUM (window function)

VAR_SAMP and VAR_POP (window functions)

Conditional Expressions

CASE

COALESCE

DECODE

GREATEST and LEAST

IIF

ISNULL

NULLIF

NVL

NVL2

Formatting Functions

FLOAT4, FLOAT8

INT2, INT4, INT8

TO_CHAR

TO_DATE

TO_NUMBER

TO_TIMESTAMP

Formats for Datetime Values

Formats for Numeric Values

Type-Safe Casting Functions

SAFE_TO_DATE

SAFE_TO_DOUBLE

SAFE_TO_TIMESTAMP

JSON Functions

JSON_ARRAY_STR

JSON_INGEST

JSON_LOOKUP

JSON_OBJECT_STR

CONVERT (SQL Server Migration Function)

GETBIT Function

NEXTVAL Function

System Functions

CURRENT_DATABASE()

CURRENT_QUERY()

CURRENT_SCHEMA

CURRENT_SCHEMAS()

CURRENT_SETTING

CURRENT_USER

GETDATABASEENCODING()

HAS_DATABASE_PRIVILEGE

HAS_FUNCTION_PRIVILEGE

HAS_KEY_PRIVILEGE

HAS_ROLE_PRIVILEGE

HAS_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE

HAS_SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE

HAS_TABLE_PRIVILEGE

PG_ADVISORY_LOCK

PG_ADVISORY_UNLOCK

PG_HAS_ROLE

PG_RELOAD_CONF()

PG_TRY_ADVISORY_LOCK

SESSION_USER

sys.execution_id()

sys.filesys_number_from_rowid

sys.gen_random_uuid()

sys.inode_number_from_rowid

sys.ldap_sync

sys.oldest_rollback_point_id_in_replica

sys.row_number_from_rowid

sys.worker_id()

sys.worker_id_from_rowid

sys.worker_uuid

VERSION()

yb_terminate_session

Network Address Functions

CONTAINS

HOSTMASK

INET_MERGE

IPV4_GET_INET, IPV6_GET_INET

IPV4_GET_MASKBITS, IPV6_GET_MASKBITS

IPV4_NETMASK, IPV6_NETMASK

MACADDR8_SET7BIT

TEXT

TRUNC

SQL Reserved Words

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START TRANSACTION

Start a transaction block.

START TRANSACTION

This command is identical to BEGIN. See the description of BEGIN for details.

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