On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:13:22 +0200
"Liana Wiehahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I've got the following:
>
> Table: Erf
> Column Name : PortionNumber
> DataType: varchar(5)
> Records: 39000
>
> The values of these records are all numbers that starts at 0 and ends at
> 200.
>
> I would like to insert one or more '0', infront of all the numbers to make
> sure that the length of each record are 5 numbers.
I would keep that simple and just do it manually:
UPDATE Erf SET PortionNumber=Concat('0',PortionNumber) where length(PortionNumber)<5;
repeat this 4 times (or: until 0 rows affected).
Assumed is that the string is not padded with leading or trailing spaces...
regards,
rene
>
> I know how to update a single record, but obviously 39000 wouldn't allow me
> to have a weekend :)
>
> Liana
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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