Multiplies two expressions (an arithmetic multiplication operator).
expression * expression
expression
Is any valid Microsoft® SQL Server™ expression of any of the data types of the numeric data type category except the datetime or smalldatetime data types.
Returns the data type of the argument with the higher precedence. For more information, see Data Type Precedence.
This example retrieves the title identification number and the price of modern cookbooks, and uses the * arithmetic operator to multiply the price by 1.15.
USE pubs
SELECT title_id, price * 1.15 AS NewPrice
FROM titles
WHERE type = 'mod_cook'
ORDER BY title_id ASC