POWER: Raising a Value to a Power (SQL)

How to:

The POWER function returns the value calculated by raising the first argument to the power specified by the second argument.

Syntax: How to Return a Value Raised to a Power

POWER(arg1, arg2)

where:

arg1

Numeric

Is the value to be raised to the power specified by arg2.

arg2

Numeric

Is the value of the power to which to raise arg1.

POWER returns the value calculated by raising the first argument to the value specified by the second argument. This example,

EXP(2,4)

returns 16.000.

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