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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, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, 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, Redshift
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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