This SQL tutorial explores all of the comparison operators used in SQL to test for equality and inequality, as well as the more advanced operators.Description Comparison operators are used in the WHERE clause to determine which records to select. Here is a list of the comparison operators that ...
SQL Bitwise Operators OperatorDescription &Bitwise AND |Bitwise OR ^Bitwise exclusive OR SQL Comparison Operators OperatorDescriptionExample =Equal toTry it >Greater thanTry it <Less thanTry it >=Greater than or equal toTry it <=Less than or equal toTry it ...
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft FabricComparison operators test whether two expressions are the same. Comparison operators can be used on all expressions except expressions of the text, ntext, or image data types. The following table...
Data modification language (DML) statements Data types and literals Deploy resource Language elements Operators Introduction to operators C# functions and operators Arithmetic operators Comparison operators Introduction to comparison operators IS NULL == (equals) > (greater than) < (less than) >= (great...
Microsoft Entra authentication(formerly Azure Active Directory)Yes, for database-level users. Server-level logins are in preview.Yes. Both database-level users and server-level logins. BACKUP commandNo, only system-initiated automatic backups, seeAutomated backups in Azure SQL DatabaseYes, user in...
Handling missing values is an important task in database management. Comparison operator like equality and inequality operators helps filter out records that satisfy this condition. Aggregation performed on large data sets using sum(), min(), max(), avg(), and so on can also be compared or ...
While BETWEEN is great for integers, it can create some date ambiguity, especially for close-range data. Comparison operators have an inclusive nature and give you more control as you can specify the exact range you’re interested in down to the level of precision you need, even when working...
This SQL Server tutorial explores all of the comparison operators used to test for equality and inequality, as well as the more advanced operators in SQL Server (Transact-SQL).Description Comparison operators are used in the WHERE clause to determine which records to select. Here is a list of...
The comparison conditions using =,<=,BETWEEN,IN,LIKE and NULL conditions.Logical conditions using AND,OR and NOT operatorsRules of precedence for operators in an expression Sorting rows using the ORDER BY clause Substitution variables DEFINE and VERIFY commands ...
For a Windows collation, you can implement a comparison of non-Unicode data by using the same algorithm as that for Unicode data. The base Windows collation rules specify which alphabet or language is used when dictionary sorting is applied. The rules also specify the code page that's used ...