Available in versions: Dev (3.19) | Latest (3.18) | 3.17 | 3.16 | 3.15 | 3.14 | 3.13 | 3.12 | 3.11 | 3.10 | 3.9
REPEAT
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The REPEAT() function repeats a string a number of times.
SELECT repeat('abc', 3);
create.select(repeat("abc", 3)).fetch();
The result being
+-----------+ | repeat | +-----------+ | abcabcabc | +-----------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
repeat("abc", 3)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ASE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
replicate('abc', 3)
-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES,
-- SNOWFLAKE, SYBASE, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
repeat('abc', 3)
-- FIREBIRD, MEMSQL
rpad(
'abc',
(char_length('abc') * 3),
'abc'
)
-- HANA, ORACLE, TERADATA, TRINO
rpad(
'abc',
(length('abc') * 3),
'abc'
)
-- SQLITE
"replace"(hex(zeroblob(3)), '00', 'abc')
-- ACCESS, DERBY, INFORMIX, REDSHIFT
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
Feedback
Do you have any feedback about this page? We'd love to hear it!