Question

I have marked a column as Identity in my table

create table Identitytest(
    number int  identity(1,001) not null,
    value varchar(500)
)

I need the identity column to be incremented as 001,002,003, etc.

The database shows that it is inserting as 1,2,3, etc.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

If you want to display your number column with leading zeros, just pad it in your SELECT statement. It’s a number, it will NOT store with leading zeros as an integer.

SELECT RIGHT('00000' + CAST([number] AS varchar(5)) , 3)
FROM IdentityTest

The 3 is the number of characters you want total in the output display.