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SUBSTRING
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The SUBSTRING() function calculates the substring of a string given a starting position and optionally, a length. See also LEFT, RIGHT.
SELECT
substring('hello world', 7),
substring('hello world', 7, 1);
create.select(
substring("hello world", 7),
substring("hello world", 7, 1)).fetch();
The result being
+-----------+-----------+ | substring | substring | +-----------+-----------+ | world | w | +-----------+-----------+
See SUBSTRING (binary) for a binary version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
substring(val("hello world"), 7)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access
mid('hello world', 7)
ASE, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
substring('hello world', 7, 2147483647)
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Sybase, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
substring('hello world', 7)
DB2, Derby, Informix, Oracle, SQLite
substr('hello world', 7)
Firebird, Teradata
substring('hello world' FROM 7)
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