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ABS

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

The ABS() function produces the absolute value of a numeric value.

SELECT abs(-5), abs(0), abs(3);
create.select(abs(-5), abs(0), abs(3)).fetch();

The result being

+-----+-----+-----+
| abs | abs | abs |
+-----+-----+-----+
|   5 |   0 |   3 |
+-----+-----+-----+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

abs(3)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- All dialects
abs(3)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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