>I have a VFP query which I need to convert to SQL Server code, but obviously it is the wrong syntax.
>

>SELECT PADL(TRIM(emNumber), 99) From Employees
>

>It 's supposed to order a character value as if it is a numeric field, but the values can also contain characters to a conversion to numeric would not do it.

like this ?

select right(space(20) + RTRIM(emNumber), 20) as result
	  from @tmp
	  order by 1;