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CAST

Description

The CAST function is used for data type conversion in SQL queries. It is typically used to convert one data type into another, such as converting a string to an integer, converting an integer to a string, and so on.

Syntax

CAST (src_type as dst_type)

Converts the src_type to the specified dst_type.

Example

1. Turn constant, or a column in a table

mysql> select cast('1234' as int);
+---------------------+
| cast('1234' as INT) |
+---------------------+
|                1234 |
+---------------------+

2. Transferred raw data

curl --location-trusted -u root: -T ~/user_data/bigint -H "columns: tmp_k1, k1=cast(tmp_k1 as BIGINT)"  http://host:port/api/test/bigint/_stream_load

• Note: In the import, because the original type is String, when the original data with floating point value is cast, the data will be converted to NULL, such as 12.0. Doris is currently not truncating raw data. *

If you want to force this type of raw data cast to int. Look at the following words:

curl --location-trusted -u root: -T ~/user_data/bigint -H "columns: tmp_k1, k1=cast(cast(tmp_k1 as DOUBLE) as BIGINT)"  http://host:port/api/test/bigint/_stream_load

mysql> select cast(cast ("11.2" as double) as bigint);
+----------------------------------------+
| CAST(CAST('11.2' AS DOUBLE) AS BIGINT) |
+----------------------------------------+
|                                     11 |
+----------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

# For the DECIMALV3 DATETIME type, the cast operation performs rounding half up.
mysql> select cast (1.115 as DECIMALV3(16, 2));
+---------------------------------+
| cast(1.115 as DECIMALV3(16, 2)) |
+---------------------------------+
|                            1.12 |
+---------------------------------+

mysql> select cast('2024-12-29-20:40:50.123500' as datetime(3));
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| cast('2024-12-29-20:40:50.123500' as DATETIMEV2(3)) |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| 2024-12-29 20:40:50.124                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------+

mysql> select cast('2024-12-29-20:40:50.123499' as datetime(3));
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| cast('2024-12-29-20:40:50.123499' as DATETIMEV2(3)) |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| 2024-12-29 20:40:50.123                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------+

Keywords

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