Suppose if we are trying to add the numbers having non-numeric text after them, then MySQL simply discard the non-numeric text and evaluates the addition of numeric values along with warnings. Following example will exhibit this −
Example
mysql> Select '1525 Kg' + '200 Oz'As Total; +-------+ | Total | +-------+ | 1725 | +-------+ 1 row in set, 2 warnings (0.00 sec)