What Are Arithmetic Operators in SQL Server Transact-SQL?

An arithmetic operator performs an arithmetic operation on two expressions of numeric data types. SQL Server supports 5 arithmetic operators:

• + (Add): Addition
• - (Subtract): Subtraction
• * (Multiply): Multiplication
• / (Divide): Division
• % (Modulo): Modulation

There are several rules on arithmetic operations:

• Arithmetic operations are performed on expressions of numeric data types like INT, NUMERIC, and FLOAT.
• When arithmetic operations are performed on expressions of the same data types, no data type conversion is needed.
• When arithmetic operations are performed on expressions of different data types, implicit data type conversion will be performed before the arithmetic operation on the expression with a lower data type rank.
• Numeric data type ranks are from low to high: TINYINT, SMALLINT, INT, BIGINT, SMALLMONEY, MONEY, DECIMAL, and FLOAT.
• The data type of the resulting value of an arithmetic operation is the same as the two input expressions.

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