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REPEAT
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The REPEAT() function repeats a string a number of times.
SELECT repeat('abc', 3);
create.select(repeat("abc", 3)).fetch();
The result being
+-----------+ | repeat | +-----------+ | abcabcabc | +-----------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
repeat("abc", 3)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- AURORA_POSTGRES, DB2, H2, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES
repeat('abc', 3)
-- FIREBIRD
rpad('abc', (char_length('abc') * 3), 'abc')
-- HANA, ORACLE
rpad('abc', (length('abc') * 3), 'abc')
-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
replicate('abc', 3)
-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, INGRES, MEMSQL, REDSHIFT, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA,
-- VERTICA
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)
