RPAD in MARIADB

In MariaDB, the RPAD function works similarly to MySQL, as both MariaDB and MySQL share similar syntax and functions. You can use RPAD to pad a string to the right with a specific set of characters until it reaches a specified length. Here's the syntax for RPAD in MariaDB:

RPAD(string, length, pad_string)

- string: The original string to be padded.

- length: The total length of the resulting string after padding.

- pad_string: The character(s) to pad the original string with.

Here's an example of how to use RPAD in MariaDB:

Suppose you have a table employees with columns employee_id and employee_name, and you want to retrieve the employee names padded to a length of 15 characters with asterisks (*):

SELECT RPAD(employee_name, 15, '*') AS padded_name

FROM employees;

This query will retrieve the employee_name column from the employees table, pad each name with asterisks (*) to make them 15 characters long, and alias the result as padded_name.

For example, if you have an employee named "John", the result would be "John**********" because "John" is only 4 characters long, and it's padded with asterisks to reach a length of 15 characters.