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Asked: 2026-05-22T01:53:30+00:00

I was wondering if someone can help me out. I am creating a simple

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I was wondering if someone can help me out. I am creating a simple script where I want to auto increment a number into a field with the number being lead by 7 0’s.

Example: 00000001

Here is my script: its a small update script

DECLARE @EDI NVARCHAR(55)
SET @EDI=0000000
UPDATE TESTER11111
SET @EDI=EDI=@EDI+1
WHERE ssq='education'

instead of incrementing the numbers as 00000001, 00000002.
its incrementing as 1, 2, 3, etc.

what am I doing wrong? how can i insert those leading 7 0’s?

EDI is the column that I am inserting the increments.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Let the table increment (and just store integers), but there’s no reason I can think of not to go ahead and format on the select statement; a fixed number format is as much data as business logic

     SELECT Right(Replicate('0',8)+Convert(nvarchar(8),EDI),8)

    EDIT: if you must save the formatted values:

    DECLARE @EDI NVARCHAR(55) 
SET @EDI=0
UPDATE TESTER11111 
SET @EDI=EDI=Right(Replicate('0',8)+Convert(nvarchar(8),@EDI+1),8) 
WHERE ssq='education'
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