Question

I have a table DomainDetail having a column fieldID.

It has values like A1,B22,A567,D7779,B86759 .. i.e. from two characters to max six characters.

I want these values have equal number of characters
A000001,B000022,A000567,D07779 and B86759 .

This is how I think I should proceed

• Estimate size of field value = LEN(fieldID)
• Insert number of zeros equal to (6 – number of characters) .

How can I insert 0’s sandwiched inside original value . How can do in SQL ?

Answer 1

like this

select 
    left(fieldID, 1) + 
    right('000000' + right(fieldID, len(fieldID) - 1), 5)
from DomainDetail

take a look at SQL FIDDLE example