SQRT

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The SQRT() function calculates the square root of a numeric value.

SELECT sqrt(4);

create.select(sqrt(4)).fetch();

The result being

+------+
| sqrt |
+------+
|    2 |
+------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

sqrt(4)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS
sqr(4)

-- ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, 
-- MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
sqrt(4)

-- COCKROACHDB
sqrt(CAST(4 AS numeric))

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.17, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Numeric functions : SQRT

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