Bitwise operators

This page describes the available operators to assist with performing bitwise operations on numeric values.

Precedence of these operators is as follows:

  1. ~ NOT
  2. & AND
  3. ^ XOR
  4. | OR

~ NOT#

~ is a unary operation that performs logical negation on each bit. Bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0. Expects a value of long or int type.

Examples:

SELECT ~1024
column
-1025

& AND#

& is a binary operation that takes two equal-length binary representations and performs the logical AND operation on each pair of the corresponding bits. Expects values of long or int type.

Examples:

SELECT 5 & 3
column
1

^ XOR#

^ is a binary operation that takes two bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical exclusive OR operation on each pair of corresponding bits. Expects a value of long or int type.

Examples:

SELECT 5 ^ 3
column
6

| OR#

| is a binary operation that takes two bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical inclusive OR operation on each pair of corresponding bits. Expects a value of long or int type.

Examples:

SELECT 5 ^ 3
column
6