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SUBSTRING
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The SUBSTRING() function calculates the substring of a string given a starting position and optionally, a length.. See also LEFT, RIGHT
SELECT
substring('hello world', 7),
substring('hello world', 7, 1);
create.select(
substring("hello world", 7),
substring("hello world", 7, 1)).fetch();
The result being
+-----------+-----------+ | substring | substring | +-----------+-----------+ | world | w | +-----------+-----------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
substring(val("hello world"), 7)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS
mid('hello world', 7)
-- ASE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
substring('hello world', 7, 2147483647)
-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL,
-- POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SYBASE, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
substring('hello world', 7)
-- DB2, DERBY, INFORMIX, ORACLE, SQLITE
substr('hello world', 7)
-- FIREBIRD, TERADATA
substring('hello world' FROM 7)
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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