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POWER function [Numeric]

Calculates one number raised to the power of another.

POWER( numeric-expression-1, numeric-expression-2 )

numeric-expression-1    The base.

numeric-expression-2    The exponent.

This function converts its arguments to DOUBLE, performs the computation in double-precision floating point, and returns a DOUBLE as the result. If any argument is NULL, the result is a NULL value.

• SQL/2003    Vendor extension.

The following statement returns the value 64.

SELECT POWER( 2, 6 );