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SPACE
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The SPACE() function repeats a space character a number of times. This is convenience for REPEAT, as available natively in SQL Server, for example.
SELECT 'a' || space(3) || 'b';
create.select(val("a").concat(space(3)).concat(val("b")).fetch();
The result being
+-------+ | space | +-------+ | a b | +-------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
space(3)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, DB2, Exasol, H2, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Vertica
space(3)
Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, DuckDB, HSQLDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
repeat(' ', 3)
Firebird, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, Oracle, Teradata, Trino
rpad(' ', 3, ' ')
SQLite
' ' || substr(replace(hex(zeroblob(3)), '00', ' '), 1, 3 - length(' '))
Access, Derby, Redshift
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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