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Showing posts with label Repeat the value using Replicate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repeat the value using Replicate. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Repeat the value using Replicate

This post is to repeat a specific value for specified number of times and assign that to a variable or if you have a column then do so.

This uses Replicate() function to repeat a string for max length of variable using sql_variant_property

The last statement LEN(@test) gets the lenght of the value assinged to the variable

DECLARE @test VARCHAR(255)
SET @test = ''
SET @test = REPLICATE('ab',CONVERT(INT,(select sql_variant_property(@test, 'MaxLength'))))
SELECT @test
SELECT LEN(@test)