the data you select is number and it stores the value its own way ,but
when you can retrieve the value as you want why you are bothered about
storing it in lpad way ,As per my knowledge of oracle data is stored in
the tables as per their data type structure ,so number field won't allow
you to store the value this way

may be someone has other way of doing so but not in number datatype

Parveen


Albert wrote:
> Thank you praveen... But,
>
> I want that to happen while insertion.. not selection...
>
>
>
> Albert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parveen Kumar
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: Prefixing zeros for a number column value
>
>
> select lpad(roll,10,0) from t1;
>
> will do your job
>
> Parveen
>
>
> Albert wrote:
>> Hi All,
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>> Can this be accomplished???
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>> If yes, how?
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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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>> Regards,
>>
>> Albert
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