Operators (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: 
SQL Server
Azure SQL Managed Instance
An operator is a symbol specifying an action that is performed on one or more expressions. The following table lists the operator categories that the SQL Server Database Engine uses.
- :: (Scope resolution)
- = (Assignment operator)
- Arithmetic operators
- Bitwise operators
- Comparison operators
- Compound operators
- Logical operators
- Relational operators
- Set operators: EXCEPT and INTERSECT, UNION
- String operators
- Unary operators: + (positive), - (negative)