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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, DERBY
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)
