Comments on: SQL SERVER – Repeate String N Times Using String Function REPLICATE

By: ramkoti

ramkoti — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:00:26 +0000

Hi Madhivanan,

SELECT REPLICATE( ‘ http:://www.SQLAuthority.com’ , 100)

when Results to Grid, this is replicating 100 times.

when Results to Text, not replicating 100 times. Can u give me the reason.

By: Nguyen Truong Thin

Nguyen Truong Thin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:17:14 +0000

Hi Sunil.P,

This is code:

DECLARE @TempTable AS TABLE
(
MyString varchar(256)
)

DECLARE @idx int
SET @idx = 1

WHILE ( @idx <= 100)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO @TempTable VALUES('http://www.SQLAuthority.com')
SET @idx = @idx + 1
END

SELECT * FROM @TempTable

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:26:51 +0000

Set the result mode to Text (Press Ctrl+T) and try this code

SELECT REPLICATE( ‘http://www.SQLAuthority.com ‘+ char(13) , 100 )

By: Rahul Bhargava

Rahul Bhargava — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:12:43 +0000

Hi Ani,
Logic behind that sorting as per my view is that when sorting starts in characters like 12 and 4 in this case sql server compares first character of both which is 1 and 4 in this situation 1 is smaller then 4 so it keeps record 12 before 4.
But after concatenating 0′s like 04 and 12 now sql server will start comparing both the characters and first it will get 0 and 1 in this case 0 is < 1 and then it puts 04 first and then 12.(Like C language's string comparison function)

Thanks
Rahul Bhargava

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:35:30 +0000

Hey Viji

It was really a gud one but the logic is not clear . Can you please explain .

The replicate function gives the result
000001
000004
009876
000xyz
000abc
000020
0aeiou
000067
000006
000012
but how does it orders it .

Plzzzzz explain

By: Viji

Viji — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:57:38 +0000

Hi,
We can use replicate for other uses also. For example if we want to sort a column which is having both numeric and varchar then,

create table #tmptbl
(
x varchar(10)
)
–
insert into #tmptbl values (’1′)
insert into #tmptbl values (’4′)
insert into #tmptbl values (’9876′)
insert into #tmptbl values (‘xyz’)
insert into #tmptbl values (‘abc’)
insert into #tmptbl values (’20′)
insert into #tmptbl values (‘aeiou’)
insert into #tmptbl values (’67′)
insert into #tmptbl values (’6′)
insert into #tmptbl values (’12′)
–
select x
from #tmptbl
order by
case when isnumeric(x)=1 then replicate(’0′,10-len(x))+x else x end

Thanks
Regards
Viji

By: Sunil.P

Sunil.P — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:34:10 +0000

Hi Sir,

Your Article is very good. I got many tricks from this site.

(Why cant you open Course for SQL Server like NIIT course?)

I want to print one string in 100 times by row wise , how do we do?

SELECT REPLICATE( ‘ http://www.SQLAuthority.com ‘ , 100 )–> This Prints in one row only.I want it print in 100 rows.

Please give the Simple Query to this.

Thanks and Regards
Sunil. P