Posted by AlterEgo on 01/24/07 23:16

Handerson,

If you set up a column as an INTEGER IDENTITY column (see BOL), SQL Server
will not store leading zeros. You could get leading zeros out of your select
statments as follows:

select right('00000000' + cast(MyColumn as varchar(25)), 8)

But, the best thing to do is manage leading zeros at the application layer.
Don't have the database always doing that work for you.

-- Bill

"HandersonVA" <handersonva@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> will it be possible to increase number as below automatically
> 00000001
> 00000002
> 00000003
> ...
>
> whenever the row is inserted, number will be increased like above
> format.
> which data type should I select and do some other setting to record
> like that?
> thanks
>

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