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  • August 30, 2013 at 11:42 pm

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    amitsingh308 (8/29/2013)

    Hello

    I have to generate a report in which amount should be 13 digits.

    e.g 2000- convert it into paisa 200000 then 13 digit amount is 0000000200000

    but I want it to do in SQl query..

    Select (amount*100) from table

    then need to add 0s as per count 13-len(amount*100) before the amount

    please guide me..

    One of the fastest ways of doing such a thing is with a little hardcoding. You might want to avoid things like REPLICATE to calculate a certain number of concatenated zero's because its just not as fast as a string literal. You should have good luck with the following...

    SELECT RIGHT('0000000000000' + CAST((Amt*100) AS VARCHAR(13)),13)

    FROM dbo.SomeTable

    ;

    Of course, such formatting should probably be done in the front-end, if there is one.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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