Miscellaneous Functions

TiDB supports most of the miscellaneous functions available in MySQL 5.7.

Supported functions

NameDescription
ANY_VALUE()Suppress ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY value rejection
BIN_TO_UUID()Convert UUID from binary format to text format
DEFAULT()Returns the default value for a table column
INET_ATON()Return the numeric value of an IP address
INET_NTOA()Return the IP address from a numeric value
INET6_ATON()Return the numeric value of an IPv6 address
INET6_NTOA()Return the IPv6 address from a numeric value
IS_IPV4()Whether argument is an IPv4 address
IS_IPV4_COMPAT()Whether argument is an IPv4-compatible address
IS_IPV4_MAPPED()Whether argument is an IPv4-mapped address
IS_IPV6()Whether argument is an IPv6 address
NAME_CONST()Can be used to rename a column name
SLEEP()Sleep for a number of seconds. Note that for TiDB Serverless clusters, the SLEEP() function has a limitation wherein it can only support a maximum sleep time of 300 seconds.
UUID()Return a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)
UUID_TO_BIN()Convert UUID from text format to binary format
VALUES()Defines the values to be used during an INSERT

Unsupported functions

NameDescription
UUID_SHORT()Provides a UUID that is unique given certain assumptions not present in TiDB TiDB #4620
MASTER_WAIT_POS()Relates to MySQL replication