AW: Putting Leading Zeros in Sql ?

Hi,

if you use the SQL scalar function MONTH the return value is a numeric value
and not a character string.
You have to convert the numeric value into a character string and depending
on its length, you add the leading zero or not.

Select case when month(current_date) < 10 then '0' else '' End
       concat Char(Month(Current_Date))
  from sysibm.sysdummy1

Birgitta

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Betreff: Putting Leading Zeros in Sql ?


How to put leading zeros in sql ?

For example:

if current date is : 1st June 2005
Select month(current date) from sysibm.sysdummy1
is returning 6, when I need this to be '06'.

Any idea please ?

Best Regards,

Luqman




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