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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 | +----------+----------+
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, CUBRID, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, TERADATA,
-- VERTICA
position('e' IN 'hello')
-- DB2, DERBY
locate('e', 'hello')
-- HANA, INGRES, SYBASE
locate('hello', 'e')
-- ORACLE, SQLITE
instr('hello', 'e')
-- ACCESS, INFORMIX, REDSHIFT
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.14, see #10141)
