SPACE

The SPACE function returns a string of as many spaces as the integer specifies.

Syntax

SPACE (integer)

Remarks

This function accepts a DECIMAL input value.
If the input is NULL, the output is also NULL; otherwise, the output is a string.
If the input is a negative integer, the output is NULL.

The following table lists the input types that you can use in SPACE, and their corresponding output types.

Data Type of integer

Output Type

BIGINT, DECIMAL, INTEGER, SMALLINT, TINYINT

CHAR

NULL

NULL

Example

SELECT CONCAT (customers.ContactFirstName, 
CONCAT (SPACE (1), customers.ContactLastName)) Name
FROM /shared/examples/ds_orders/customers customers