SPACE

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

The SPACE() function repeats a space character a number of times. This is convenience for REPEAT, as available natively in SQL Server, for example.

SELECT 'a' || space(3) || 'b';

create.select(val("a").concat(space(3)).concat(val("b")).fetch();

The result being

+-------+
| space |
+-------+
| a   b |
+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

space(3)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, CUBRID, DB2, H2, MARIADB, MYSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, VERTICA
space(3)

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, HSQLDB, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT
repeat(' ', 3)

-- FIREBIRD, HANA, INFORMIX, INGRES, MEMSQL, ORACLE, TERADATA
rpad(' ', 3, ' ')

-- SQLITE
' ' || substr("replace"(hex(zeroblob(3)), '00', ' '), 1, 3 - length(' '))

-- ACCESS, BIGQUERY, DERBY, IGNITE, SNOWFLAKE
/* UNSUPPORTED */

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

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

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