* (Multiply) (T-SQL)

Multiplies two expressions (an arithmetic multiplication operator).

Syntax

expression * expression

Arguments

expression

Is any valid Microsoft® SQL Server™ expression of any of the data types of the numeric data type category except the datetime or smalldatetime data types.

Result Types

Returns the data type of the argument with the higher precedence. For more information, see Data Type Precedence.

Examples

This example retrieves the title identification number and the price of modern cookbooks, and uses the * arithmetic operator to multiply the price by 1.15.

USE pubs

SELECT title_id, price * 1.15 AS NewPrice

FROM titles

WHERE type = 'mod_cook'

ORDER BY title_id ASC

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