diff --git a/functions-and-operators/string-functions.md b/functions-and-operators/string-functions.md
index d6c9f6bf1ad7b..2107f7f8ca90c 100644
--- a/functions-and-operators/string-functions.md
+++ b/functions-and-operators/string-functions.md
@@ -1180,11 +1180,53 @@ Negation of simple pattern matching.
 
 ### [`NOT REGEXP`](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/regexp.html#operator_not-regexp)
 
-Negation of `REGEXP`.
+Negation of [`REGEXP`](#regexp).
 
 ### [`OCT()`](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_oct)
 
-Return a string containing octal representation of a number.
+Return a string containing [octal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal) (base 8) representation of a number.
+
+Examples:
+
+The following example generates a sequence of numbers from 0 to 20 using a [recursive common table expression (CTE)](/develop/dev-guide-use-common-table-expression.md#recursive-cte) and then uses the `OCT()` function to convert each number to its octal representation. Decimal values from 0 to 7 have identical representations in octal. Decimal numbers from 8 to 15 correspond to octal numbers from 10 to 17.
+
+```sql
+WITH RECURSIVE nr(n) AS (
+    SELECT 0 AS n
+    UNION ALL
+    SELECT n+1 FROM nr WHERE n<20
+)
+SELECT n, OCT(n) FROM nr;
+```
+
+```
++------+--------+
+| n    | OCT(n) |
++------+--------+
+|    0 | 0      |
+|    1 | 1      |
+|    2 | 2      |
+|    3 | 3      |
+|    4 | 4      |
+|    5 | 5      |
+|    6 | 6      |
+|    7 | 7      |
+|    8 | 10     |
+|    9 | 11     |
+|   10 | 12     |
+|   11 | 13     |
+|   12 | 14     |
+|   13 | 15     |
+|   14 | 16     |
+|   15 | 17     |
+|   16 | 20     |
+|   17 | 21     |
+|   18 | 22     |
+|   19 | 23     |
+|   20 | 24     |
++------+--------+
+20 rows in set (0.00 sec)
+```
 
 ### [`OCTET_LENGTH()`](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_octet-length)