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LIKE REGEX predicate
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Regular expression LIKE predicates work like the LIKE predicate, but they match against a regular expression, not just simple LIKE patterns.
TITLE LIKE_REGEX '.*abc.*' NOT (TITLE LIKE_REGEX '.*abc.*')
BOOK.TITLE.likeRegex(".*abc.*")
BOOK.TITLE.notLikeRegex(".*abc.*")
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
BOOK.TITLE.likeRegex(".*abc.*")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, Databricks, H2, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Sybase
BOOK.TITLE REGEXP '.*abc.*'
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
(BOOK.TITLE ~ '.*abc.*')
HSQLDB
REGEXP_MATCHES(BOOK.TITLE, '.*abc.*')
Oracle, Snowflake, Vertica
REGEXP_LIKE(BOOK.TITLE, '.*abc.*')
ASE, Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, Hana, Informix, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Teradata, Trino
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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