tan

Syntax

tan(angle)

Parameters

• angle – is the size of the angle in radians, expressed as a column name, variable, or expression of type float, real, double precision, or any datatype that can be implicitly converted to one of these types.

Examples

• Example 1 – Calculates the tangent of 60:

  select tan(60)

  -------------------- 
             0.320040

Usage

See also Transact-SQL Users Guide.

Standards

ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.

Permissions

Any user can execute tan.