Question

The problem is that the COLA has padded 0s

What I am attempting to do is verify COLB, COLC, COLD, COLE, COLF with COLA

Or have I gone about this the wrong way!

How do I get COLB, COLD to compare a Number (int) against a padded number substring ?

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Example
that is correct

COLB    COLC    COLD    COLE    COLF               COLA

1        DD      5       1       0                     should = 01DD000510

not any of these

COLB   COLC   COLD  COLE   COLF    COLA

50     AA     230   2       0        0
50     AC     600   3       0
50     AG     740   2       0        50AE074020
50     AS     240   3       0        *0AS024030

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 -- select that does not work statement.

 SELECT COLA ,
        COLB ,
        SUBSTRING(COLA, 1, 2) AS 'BLC_COLB' ,
        COLC ,
        SUBSTRING(COLA, 3, 2) AS 'BLC_COLC' ,
        COLD ,
        SUBSTRING(COLA, 5, 4) AS 'BLC_COLD' ,
        COLE ,
        SUBSTRING(COLA, 9, 1) AS 'BLC_COLE' ,
        COLF ,
        SUBSTRING(COLA, 10, 1) AS 'BLC_COLF'
 FROM   ATABLE
 WHERE  SUBSTRING(COLA, 1, 2) NOT LIKE COLB
        OR SUBSTRING(COLA, 3, 2) NOT LIKE COLC
        OR SUBSTRING(COLA, 5, 4) NOT LIKE COLD
        OR SUBSTRING(COLA, 9, 1) NOT LIKE COLE
        OR SUBSTRING(COLA, 10, 1) NOT LIKE COLF

--create table and data script

 CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ATABLE]
    (
      [ROWVERSION] [bigint] NULL ,
      [ROWDATE] [datetime] NULL ,
      [COLB] [int] NOT NULL ,
      [COLC] [nvarchar](2) NOT NULL ,
      [COLD] [int] NOT NULL ,
      [COLE] [nvarchar](1) NOT NULL ,
      [COLF] [int] NOT NULL ,
      [COLA] [nvarchar](14) NULL ,
      CONSTRAINT [CON1_0] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
        ( [COLB] ASC, [COLC] ASC, [COLD] ASC, [COLE] ASC, [COLF] ASC )
        WITH ( PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF,
               IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON,
               ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON, FILLFACTOR = 70 ) ON [PRIMARY]
    )
 ON [PRIMARY]

    GO
 SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF
GO
 SET ANSI_PADDING, ANSI_WARNINGS, CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL, ARITHABORT, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, ANSI_NULLS, NOCOUNT ON
GO
 SET DATEFORMAT YMD
GO
 SET XACT_ABORT ON
GO
 SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
GO
 BEGIN TRANSACTION

-- Add 5 rows to [dbo].[ATABLE] with non-unique comparison key
 SET ROWCOUNT 1
 INSERT INTO [dbo].[ATABLE]
        ( [COLB] ,
          [COLC] ,
          [COLD] ,
          [COLE] ,
          [COLF] ,
          [ROWVERSION] ,
          [ROWDATE] ,
          [COLA]
        )
 VALUES ( 1 ,
          N'DD' ,
          5 ,
          N'1' ,
          0 ,
          327520493236000002 ,
          '2011-07-04 10:21:33.227' ,
          N'01DD000510'
        )
 INSERT INTO [dbo].[ATABLE]
        ( [COLB] ,
          [COLC] ,
          [COLD] ,
          [COLE] ,
          [COLF] ,
          [ROWVERSION] ,
          [ROWDATE] ,
          [COLA]
        )
 VALUES ( 50 ,
          N'AA' ,
          230 ,
          N'2' ,
          0 ,
          327520514140000004 ,
          '2011-07-28 09:47:41.013' ,
          N'0'
        )
 INSERT INTO [dbo].[ATABLE]
        ( [COLB] ,
          [COLC] ,
          [COLD] ,
          [COLE] ,
          [COLF] ,
          [ROWVERSION] ,
          [ROWDATE] ,
          [COLA]
        )
 VALUES ( 50 ,
          N'AC' ,
          600 ,
          N'3' ,
          0 ,
          327520523360000007 ,
          '2011-07-28 09:48:09.577' ,
          N''
        )
 INSERT INTO [dbo].[ATABLE]
        ( [COLB] ,
          [COLC] ,
          [COLD] ,
          [COLE] ,
          [COLF] ,
          [ROWVERSION] ,
          [ROWDATE] ,
          [COLA]
        )
 VALUES ( 50 ,
          N'AG' ,
          740 ,
          N'2' ,
          0 ,
          327520543671000002 ,
          '2011-07-28 09:47:03.773' ,
          N'50AE074020'
        )
 INSERT INTO [dbo].[ATABLE]
        ( [COLB] ,
          [COLC] ,
          [COLD] ,
          [COLE] ,
          [COLF] ,
          [ROWVERSION] ,
          [ROWDATE] ,
          [COLA]
        )
 VALUES ( 50 ,
          N'AS' ,
          240 ,
          N'3' ,
          0 ,
          327520586618000007 ,
          '2011-07-28 09:48:08.453' ,
          N'*0AS024030'
        )
 SET ROWCOUNT 0
 COMMIT TRANSACTION

Answer 1

Do this to select all rows that are “not verified”:

SELECT  *
FROM    ATABLE
WHERE   RIGHT('0' + CAST(COLB AS VARCHAR), 2) +
        COLC +
        RIGHT('000' + CAST(COLD AS VARCHAR), 4) +
        COLE +
        CAST(COLF AS VARCHAR) <> COLA