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Vack
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

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Posted - 11/10/2010 :  10:17:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a field that is char 15

I want to update the field so that it has leading zeros in it.

Table name: altsls
Field Name: cus_cd

data in field is 1. I want it to be 000000000000001

visakh16
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Posted - 11/10/2010 :  10:19:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 

UPDATE altsls
SET cus_cd = RIGHT('000000000000000' + cus_cd ,15)


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Edited by - visakh16 on 11/10/2010 10:20:09
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madhivanan
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Posted - 11/11/2010 :  04:44:31  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
If it is only for selection

select replace(STR(cus_cd ,15),' ','0') from altsls

updation

update altsls
SET cus_cd =replace(STR(cus_cd ,15),' ','0')

Madhivanan

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