LOG

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

The LOG() function calculates the logarithm of a numeric value, given a base.

SELECT log(8, 2);

create.select(log(8, 2)).fetch();

The result being

+-----+          
| log |
+-----+
|   3 |
+-----+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

log(8, 2)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, ASE
(log(8) / log(2))

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, 
-- VERTICA, YUGABYTE
log(2, 8)

-- BIGQUERY, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
log(8, 2)

-- COCKROACHDB
(ln(CAST(8 AS numeric)) / ln(CAST(2 AS numeric)))

-- DB2, DERBY, HSQLDB, SYBASE, TERADATA
(ln(8) / ln(2))

-- INFORMIX
(logn(8) / logn(2))

-- SQLITE
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.16, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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

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