>= (Greater Than or Equal To) (Transact-SQL)

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Compares two expressions for greater than or equal (a comparison operator).

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Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

expression >= expression 

Arguments

expression
Is any valid expression. Both expressions must have implicitly convertible data types. The conversion depends on the rules of data type precedence.

Result Types

Boolean

Remarks

When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand has a greater or equal value than the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE.

Unlike the = (equality) comparison operator, the result of the >= comparison of two NULL values does not depend on the ANSI_NULLS setting.

Examples

A. Using >= in a simple query

The following example returns all rows in the HumanResources.Department table that have a value in DepartmentID that is greater than or equal to the value 13.

-- Uses AdventureWorks 
 
SELECT DepartmentID, Name 
FROM HumanResources.Department 
WHERE DepartmentID >= 13 
ORDER BY DepartmentID; 

Here's the result set.

DepartmentID Name 
------------ -------------------------------------------------- 
13 Quality Assurance 
14 Facilities and Maintenance 
15 Shipping and Receiving 
16 Executive 
 
(4 row(s) affected) 
 

See Also

Data Types (Transact-SQL)
Expressions (Transact-SQL)
= (Equals) (Transact-SQL)
> (Greater Than) (Transact-SQL)
Operators (Transact-SQL)