Padding identity column values with zeros

Hi Guys

Is there an easy way to pad identity column values with zeros to the left (0001, 0010,0100, etc) or I will just have to format them before displaying

George

This works for me a lot of times.

REPLICATE('0', 4-len(cast(id as char(4))) + cast(id as char(4))

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You could use an expression like:

right(replicate('0', 8) + cast($identity as varchar), 8)

-- or

right(replicate('0', 8) + cast(identitycol as varchar), 8)

You could either use a computed column or a view with the expression. Alternatively, you could simply do these type of operations on the client side.