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REPLACE
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The REPLACE() function replaces a substring inside of a string by another string.
SELECT replace('hello world', 'llo', 'y');
create.select(replace(val("hello world"), "llo", "y")).fetch();
The result being
+-----------+ | replace | +-----------+ | hey world | +-----------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
replace(val("hello world"), "llo", "y")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB,
-- MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
replace('hello world', 'llo', 'y')
-- ASE
str_replace('hello world', 'llo', 'y')
-- SQLITE
"replace"('hello world', 'llo', 'y')
-- TERADATA
oreplace('hello world', 'llo', 'y')
-- DERBY, REDSHIFT
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.18, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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