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RPAD
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The RPAD() pads a string at the right end. See also LPAD.
SELECT rpad('hello', 10, '.');
create.select(rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | rpad | +------------+ | hello..... | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access
('hello' & replace(space(10 - len('hello')), ' ', '.'))
ASE
('hello' || replicate(
'.',
(10 - char_length('hello'))
))
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Teradata, Vertica
rpad('hello', 10, '.')
SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
('hello' + replicate(
'.',
(10 - len('hello'))
))
SQLite
'hello' || substr(replace(hex(zeroblob(10)), '00', '.'), 1, 10 - length('hello'))
Sybase
('hello' || repeat(
'.',
(10 - length('hello'))
))
BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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