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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:
ASE, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
replicate('abc', 3)
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Sybase, Vertica, YugabyteDB
repeat('abc', 3)
Firebird, MemSQL
rpad(
'abc',
(char_length('abc') * 3),
'abc'
)
Hana, Oracle, Teradata, Trino
rpad(
'abc',
(length('abc') * 3),
'abc'
)
SQLite
replace(hex(zeroblob(3)), '00', 'abc')
Access, Derby, Informix
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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