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LOOP statement

Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Many procedural languages support a condition-less loop, which in its pure form, just loops forever. In order to create an infinite number of records in a table, one might write the following:

-- PL/SQL syntax
LOOP
  INSERT INTO t (col) VALUES (1);
END LOOP;
// All dialects
loop(
  insertInto(T).columns(T.COL).values(1)
)

An "infinite" loop is usually exited using an EXIT statement.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

loop(update(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE).set(BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK, BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK.plus(1)))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, Postgres, Snowflake, YugabyteDB

LOOP
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1);
END LOOP

BigQuery

LOOP
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1)
  WHERE TRUE;
END LOOP

DB2, Exasol, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle

LOOP
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1);
END LOOP

Firebird

WHILE (1 = 1) DO BEGIN
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1);
END

H2

for (;;) {
  try (PreparedStatement s = c.prepareStatement(
    "UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE\n" +
    "SET\n" +
    "  BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1)"
  )) {
    s.execute();
  }
}

Hana

WHILE 1 = 1 DO
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  FROM BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1);
END WHILE

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

WHILE 1 = 1 BEGIN
  UPDATE BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE
  SET
    BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK = (BOOK_TO_BOOK_STORE.STOCK + 1);
END

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, MemSQL, Redshift, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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