Thanks everybody
Ravi's syntax worked and I'm on my way to have a nice weekend!:)
cheers
Liana
-----Original Message-----
From: Ravi Raman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 4:39 PM
To: Liana Wiehahn; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Manipulation of data - batch processing!
hi.
update Erf set PortionNumber = CONCAT('0', PortionNumber) where
LENGTH(PortionNumber) = 4;
update Erf set PortionNumber = CONCAT('00', PortionNumber) where
LENGTH(PortionNumber) = 3;
update Erf set PortionNumber = CONCAT('000', PortionNumber) where
LENGTH(PortionNumber) = 2;
update Erf set PortionNumber = CONCAT('0000', PortionNumber) where
LENGTH(PortionNumber) = 1;
have a nice weekend!
-ravi.
-----Original Message-----
From: Liana Wiehahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Manipulation of data - batch processing!
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 know how to update a single record, but obviously 39000 wouldn't allow me
to have a weekend :)
Liana
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