How To Calculate Expressions with SQL Statements

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How To Calculate Expressions with SQL Statements? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics

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There is no special SQL statements to calculate expressions. But you can use the "SELECT expression FROM DUAL" statement return the calculated value of an expression. "DUAL" is a dummy table in the server. The tutorial exercise below shows you some good examples:

SELECT 'Hello world!' FROM DUAL; 
   Hello world!

SELECT (1+2)*3/4 FROM DUAL;
   2.2500

SELECT TRUE FROM DUAL;
   1

SELECT TRUE AND FALSE FROM DUAL;
   0

SELECT TIME(SYSDATE()) FROM DUAL;
   21:30:26

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