Miscellaneous Functions

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

Supported functions

Name	Description
`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
`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

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