Finding even or odd ID values

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I was working on a query today which required me to use the following to find all odd number ID values   ID   2   lt  gt  0   Can anyone tell me what this is doing  It worked  which is great  but I d like to know why

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lt   means not equal  however  in some versions of SQL  you can write

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ID   2 reduces all integer  monetary and numeric are allowed  too  numbers to 0 and 1 effectively  Read about the modulo operator in the manual

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dividend   divisor  Dividend is the numeric expression to divide  Dividend must be any expression of integer data type in sql server   Divisor is the numeric expression to divide the dividend  Divisor must be expression of integer data type except in sql server    SELECT 15   2  Output 1   Dividend   15  Divisor   2  Let s say you wanted to query   Query a list of CITY names from STATION with even ID numbers only   Schema structure for STATION   ID Number  CITY varchar  STATE varchar   select CITY from STATION as st where st id   2   0  Will fetch the even set of records    In order to fetch the odd records with Id as odd number   select CITY from STATION as st where st id   2  lt  gt  0     function reduces the value to either 0 or 1

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ID   2 is checking what the remainder is if you divide ID by 2  If you divide an even number by 2 it will always have a remainder of 0  Any other number  odd  will result in a non-zero value  Which is what is checking for

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In oracle   select num from table where MOD  num  2    0

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For finding the even number we should use  select num from table where   num   2     0

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As Below Doc specify  dividend   divisor Returns the remainder of one number divided by another   https   docs microsoft com en-us sql t-sql language-elements modulo-transact-sql syntax For Example  13   2 return 1  Next part is  lt  gt  which denotes Not equals  Therefor what your statement mean is Remainder of ID when it divided by 2 not equals to 0 Be careful because this is not going to work in Oracle database  Same Expression will be like below  MOD ID  2   lt  gt  0

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It s taking the ID   dividing it by 2 and checking if the remainder is not zero  meaning  it s an odd ID

[sql] Finding even or odd ID values

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