> (Greater Than) (Transact-SQL)

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Compares two expressions (a comparison operator) in SQL Server. When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand has a value higher than the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE. If either or both operands are NULL, see the topic SET ANSI_NULLS (Transact-SQL).

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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

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 the value 13.

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

Here's the result set.

DepartmentID Name 
------------ -------------------------------------------------- 
14 Facilities and Maintenance 
15 Shipping and Receiving 
16 Executive 
 
(3 row(s) affected) 
 

B. Using > to compare two variables

DECLARE @a INT = 45, @b INT = 40; 
SELECT IIF ( @a > @b, 'TRUE', 'FALSE' ) AS Result; 

Here's the result set.

Result 
------ 
TRUE 
 
(1 row(s) affected) 
 

See Also

IIF (Transact-SQL)
Data Types (Transact-SQL)
Operators (Transact-SQL)