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Kelvin Wangonya
Kelvin Wangonya

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You can use your database as a simple calculator

#database #todayilearned

Saw this in the MySQL docs. I'm assuming this only works for relational databases.

I don't know if it's very useful but definitely interesting.

MariaDB[] > SELECT SIN(PI()/4), (4+1)*5; +------------------+---------+ | SIN(PI()/4) | (4+1)*5 | +------------------+---------+ | 0.70710678118655 | 25 | +------------------+---------+ 1 row in set (0.02 sec)
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postgres=# SELECT SIN(PI()/4), (4+1)*5; sin | ?column? --------------------+---------- 0.7071067811865475 | 25 (1 row)
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