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POSITION
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The POSITION() function finds the first position of a string within another string, starting with 1.
SELECT
position('hello', 'e'),
position('hello', 'l', 4);
create.select(
position("hello", "e"),
position("hello", "e", 4)).fetch();
The result being
+----------+----------+ | position | position | +----------+----------+ | 2 | 4 | +----------+----------+
See POSITION (binary) for a binary version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
position("hello", "e")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
charindex('e', 'hello')
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
position('e' IN 'hello')
BigQuery, Informix, Oracle, SQLite
instr('hello', 'e')
ClickHouse
position('hello', 'e')
DB2, Derby
locate('e', 'hello')
Hana, Sybase
locate('hello', 'e')
Access
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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