RIGHT

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The RIGHT() function calculates the substring of a given string starting from the right end. See also SUBSTRING, LEFT

SELECT right('hello world', 5);

create.select(right("hello world", 5)).fetch();

The result being

+-----------+
| right |
+-------+
| world |
+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

right("hello world", 5)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, CUBRID, DB2, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, IGNITE, 
-- INFORMIX, INGRES, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA
right('hello world', 5)

-- DERBY
substr('hello world', (length('hello world') + (1 - 5)))

-- ORACLE, SQLITE
substr('hello world', -(5))

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : String functions : RIGHT

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