Thank you praveen... But,

I want that to happen while insertion.. not selection...



Albert

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From: Parveen Kumar
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:10 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Re: Prefixing zeros for a number column value


select lpad(roll,10,0) from t1;

will do your job

Parveen


Albert wrote:
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> create table t1 (roll number(10));
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> insert into t1 values(22);
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> commit;
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> select roll from t1;
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> output should be 0000000022 and not 22.
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