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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:

abs(3)

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