MariaDB - Greater than or equal to (>=) Operator
The MariaDB >= (greater than or equal to) operator checks if the value of left operand is greater than or equal to the value of right operand and returns true if the condition is true, false otherwise.
Syntax
The syntax for using greater than or equal to operator in MariaDB is given below:
expression >= expression
Parameters
expression |
Any valid expression. Both expressions must have implicitly convertible data types. |
Example 1:
The example below shows the usage of greater than or equal to operator:
SELECT 10 >= 10; Result: 1 SELECT 10.0 >= 10; Result: 1 SELECT 10 >= 20; Result: 0 SELECT 'abc' >= 'abc'; Result: 1 SELECT 'abc' >= 'xyz'; Result: 0
Example 2:
Consider a database table called Employee with the following records:
EmpID | Name | City | Age | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John | London | 25 | 3000 |
2 | Marry | New York | 24 | 2750 |
3 | Jo | Paris | 27 | 2800 |
4 | Kim | Amsterdam | 30 | 3100 |
5 | Ramesh | New Delhi | 28 | 3000 |
6 | Huang | Beijing | 28 | 2800 |
To select records of table where Age of the person is greater than or equal to 28, the query is given below.
SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE Age >= 28;
The query will produce following result:
EmpID | Name | City | Age | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | Kim | Amsterdam | 30 | 3100 |
5 | Ramesh | New Delhi | 28 | 3000 |
6 | Huang | Beijing | 28 | 2800 |
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