XOR boolean operator
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The exclusive or (XOR) operator is true only if one of the operands is true, not both.
(TITLE = 'Animal Farm' XOR AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell')
BOOK.TITLE.eq("Animal Farm").xor(AUTHOR.LAST_NAME.eq("Orwell"))
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
BOOK.TITLE.eq("Animal Farm").xor(AUTHOR.LAST_NAME.eq("Orwell"))
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL
( BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm' XOR AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell' )
ASE, DB2, Firebird, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Sybase, Teradata
CASE WHEN BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm' THEN 1 WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm') THEN 0 END <> CASE WHEN AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell' THEN 1 WHEN NOT (AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell') THEN 0 END
Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MemSQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
(BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm') <> (AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell')
Hana
CASE WHEN BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm' THEN TRUE WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm') THEN FALSE END <> CASE WHEN AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell' THEN TRUE WHEN NOT (AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell') THEN FALSE END
Informix
CASE
WHEN BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm' THEN CAST('t' AS boolean)
WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE = 'Animal Farm') THEN CAST('f' AS boolean)
END <> CASE
WHEN AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell' THEN CAST('t' AS boolean)
WHEN NOT (AUTHOR.LAST_NAME = 'Orwell') THEN CAST('f' AS boolean)
END
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