ASCII

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

The ASCII() function calculates the ASCII code of a single character.

SELECT ascii('A');

create.select(ascii("A")).fetch();

The result being

+-------+
| ascii |
+-------+
|  65   |
+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

ascii("A")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS
asc('A')

-- ASE, CUBRID, DB2, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, SQLSERVER, SYBASE
ascii('A')

-- FIREBIRD
ascii_val('A')

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, EXASOL, HANA, IGNITE, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, 
-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, TERADATA, VERTICA
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : String functions : ASCII

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