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  • February 21, 2013 at 3:21 am

    #1589865

    Try this, Wayne:

    USE Occupancy

    ;WITH BookingsToUpdate AS (

    SELECT

    *,

    Seq = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Booking_Skey)

    FROM Bookings

    )

    SELECT

    Seq,

    Booking_Skey,

    BookingNumber = 'B' + RIGHT('0000000' + CAST(Seq AS VARCHAR(8)),8),

    AnotherBookingNumber = 'B' + RIGHT('0000000' + CAST(Booking_Skey AS VARCHAR(8)),8)

    FROM BookingsToUpdate

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