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Term: POWER

Definition:
The Oracle PL/SQL, the POWER function is a built in function which takes two numeric inputs and returns numeric result as first argument raised to second argument. The statement "POWER (a,b)" computes as ( a^b ).

Example Syntax:

POWER(x,y)

Here, "x" is the base while "y" is the exponent.

Example Usage:

The SQL query below calculates 2nd power of base 10.

SQL> SELECT POWER(10,2) FROM DUAL;



POWER(10,2)

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        100

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