REPEAT statement

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime 16.3 and above

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Repeat the execution of a list of statements until a condition is true.

This statement may only be used within a compound statement.

Syntax

[ label : ] REPEAT
  { stmt ; } [...]
  UNTIL cond
  END REPEAT [ label ]

Parameters

• label

  An optional label for the loop, which is unique amongst all labels for statements within which the REPEAT statement is contained. The label can be used to LEAVE or ITERATE the loop.

• cond

  Any expression evaluating to a BOOLEAN

• stmt

  A SQL statement

Examples

SQL

-- sum up all odd numbers from 1 through 10
> BEGIN
    DECLARE sum INT DEFAULT 0;
    DECLARE num INT DEFAULT 0;
    sumNumbers: REPEAT
      SET num = num + 1;
      IF num % 2 = 0 THEN
        ITERATE sumNumbers;
      END IF;
      SET sum = sum + num;
    UNTIL num = 10
    END REPEAT sumNumbers;
    VALUES (sum);
  END;
 25

-- Compare with the much more efficient relational computation:
> SELECT sum(num) FROM range(1, 10) AS t(num) WHERE num % 2 = 1;
 25

Related articles

• SQL Scripting
• CASE Statement
• Compound Statement
• FOR Statement
• IF Statement
• ITERATE Statement
• WHILE Statement
• LEAVE Statement
• LOOP Statement