Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 9

11.1.2. Date and Time Type Overview ....................................................................... 829
11.1.3. String Type Overview ..................................................................................... 830
11.1.4. Numeric Types .............................................................................................. 834
11.1.5. Date and Time Types .................................................................................... 838
11.1.6. String Types .................................................................................................. 848
11.1.7. Data Type Default Values .............................................................................. 856
11.2. Data Type Storage Requirements ............................................................................. 858
11.3. Choosing the Right Type for a Column ...................................................................... 861
11.4. Using Data Types from Other Database Engines ....................................................... 861
12. Functions and Operators ..................................................................................................... 863
12.1. Function and Operator Reference ............................................................................. 864
12.2. Type Conversion in Expression Evaluation ................................................................ 871
12.3. Operators ................................................................................................................. 872
12.3.1. Operator Precedence ..................................................................................... 873
12.3.2. Comparison Functions and Operators ............................................................. 874
12.3.3. Logical Operators .......................................................................................... 880
12.3.4. Assignment Operators .................................................................................... 881
12.4. Control Flow Functions ............................................................................................. 882
12.5. String Functions ....................................................................................................... 884
12.5.1. String Comparison Functions .......................................................................... 895
12.5.2. Regular Expressions ...................................................................................... 899
12.6. Numeric Functions and Operators ............................................................................. 904
12.6.1. Arithmetic Operators ...................................................................................... 905
12.6.2. Mathematical Functions .................................................................................. 907
12.7. Date and Time Functions .......................................................................................... 915
12.8. What Calendar Is Used By MySQL? .......................................................................... 934
12.9. Full-Text Search Functions ....................................................................................... 934
12.9.1. Natural Language Full-Text Searches ............................................................. 935
12.9.2. Boolean Full-Text Searches ........................................................................... 938
12.9.3. Full-Text Searches with Query Expansion ....................................................... 940
12.9.4. Full-Text Stopwords ....................................................................................... 941
12.9.5. Full-Text Restrictions ..................................................................................... 944
12.9.6. Fine-Tuning MySQL Full-Text Search ............................................................. 944
12.9.7. Adding a Collation for Full-Text Indexing ......................................................... 946
12.10. Cast Functions and Operators ................................................................................. 948
12.11. Bit Functions .......................................................................................................... 950
12.12. Encryption and Compression Functions ................................................................... 952
12.13. Information Functions .............................................................................................. 957
12.14. Miscellaneous Functions ......................................................................................... 964
12.15. Functions and Modifiers for Use with
12.15.1.
GROUP BY
12.15.2.
GROUP BY
12.15.3. MySQL Extensions to
12.16. Spatial Extensions .................................................................................................. 976
12.16.1. Introduction to MySQL Spatial Support .......................................................... 976
12.16.2. The OpenGIS Geometry Model .................................................................... 977
12.16.3. Supported Spatial Data Formats ................................................................... 983
12.16.4. Creating a Spatially Enabled MySQL Database ............................................. 984
12.16.5. Spatial Analysis Functions ............................................................................ 989
12.16.6. Optimizing Spatial Analysis ........................................................................... 998
12.16.7. MySQL Conformance and Compatibility ...................................................... 1001
12.17. Precision Math ...................................................................................................... 1001
12.17.1. Types of Numeric Values ........................................................................... 1002
12.17.2.
DECIMAL
12.17.3. Expression Handling ................................................................................... 1004
12.17.4. Rounding Behavior ..................................................................................... 1005
12.17.5. Precision Math Examples ........................................................................... 1006
13. SQL Statement Syntax ...................................................................................................... 1011
MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual
GROUP BY
(Aggregate) Functions ................................................................ 968
Modifiers .................................................................................... 972
GROUP BY
Data Type Changes .................................................................... 1002
ix
Clauses ......................................... 968
................................................................. 975