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Concatenates a string a specified number of times.
REPEAT ( string-expression, integer-expression )
string-expression The string to be repeated.
integer-expression The number of times the string is to be repeated. If integer-expression is negative, an empty string is returned.
The
result data type of a REPEAT function is a LONG
VARCHAR. If you use REPEAT in a SELECT INTO statement,
you must have a Large Objects Management option license or use CAST and
set REPEAT to the correct data type and size.
See “REPLACE function [String]” for more information.
The following statement returns the value “repeatrepeatrepeat:”
SELECT REPEAT( 'repeat', 3 ) FROM iq_dummy
