Chapter 19

BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates

Abstract

The BETWEEN and OVERLAPS predicates both offer a shorthand way of showing that one value lies within a range defined by two other values. BETWEEN works with scalar range limits of any type; the OVERLAPS predicate looks at two time periods.

Keywords

BETWEEN

OVERLAPS

SYMMETRIC

ASYMMETRIC

NULLs

INTERVAL

The between and OVERLAPS predicates both offer a shorthand way of showing that one value lies within a range defined by two other values. BETWEEN works with scalar range limits of any type; the OVERLAPS predicate looks at two time periods (defined either by start and end points or by a starting time and an INTERVAL) to see if they overlap in time.

19.1 The BETWEEN Predicate

The BETWEEN predicate ...

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