elasticsearch/docs/reference/query-languages/sql-functions-type-conversion.md

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Type Conversion Functions [sql-functions-type-conversion]

Functions for converting an expression of one data type to another.

CAST [sql-functions-type-conversion-cast]

CAST(
    expression <1>
 AS data_type) <2>

1. Expression to cast. If null, the function returns null.
2. Target data type to cast to

Description: Casts the result of the given expression to the target data type. If the cast is not possible (for example because of target type is too narrow or because the value itself cannot be converted), the query fails.

SELECT CAST('123' AS INT) AS int;

      int
---------------
123

SELECT CAST(123 AS VARCHAR) AS string;

    string
---------------
123

SELECT YEAR(CAST('2018-05-19T11:23:45Z' AS TIMESTAMP)) AS year;

     year
---------------
2018

::::{important} Both ANSI SQL and Elasticsearch SQL types are supported with the former taking precedence. This only affects FLOAT which due naming conflict, is interpreted as ANSI SQL and thus maps to double in {{es}} as oppose to float. To obtain an {{es}} float, perform casting to its SQL equivalent, real type. ::::

CONVERT [sql-functions-type-conversion-convert]

CONVERT(
    expression, <1>
    data_type)  <2>

1. Expression to convert. If null, the function returns null.
2. Target data type to convert to

Description: Works exactly like CAST with slightly different syntax. Moreover, apart from the standard data types it supports the corresponding ODBC data types.

SELECT CONVERT('123', SQL_INTEGER) AS int;

      int
---------------
123

SELECT CONVERT('123', INTEGER) AS int;

      int
---------------
123