Hi,
A customer asked me to pad the ID field with leading zeroes up to 4 digits in total. The field is a character type. Here are some examples of how they appear:
'355'
'33'
'9938'
'056'
The have to become:
'0355'
'0033'
'9938'
'0056'
The trick is that some values are not numbers but combination of numbers and letters. For example:
'002-ABCD'
which should become:
'0002-ABCD'
How do I do it in T-SQL in one UPDATE?
TIA
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