Update field with leading zeros

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Update field with leading zeros

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Vack
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530 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 10:17:27

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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52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 10:19:24

[code]
UPDATE altsls
SET cus_cd = RIGHT('000000000000000' + cus_cd ,15)
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madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-11 : 04:44:31

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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