PadLeft function in T-SQL

Question

I have the following table A:

id
----
1
2
12
123
1234

I need to left-pad the id values with zero\'s:

id
----
0         


        

Answer 1

I needed this in a function on SQL server and adjusted Patrick's answer a bit.

declare @dossierId int = 123
declare @padded_id varchar(7)


set @padded_id = REPLACE(
              SPACE(7 - LEN(@dossierId)) + convert(varchar(7), @dossierId), 
              SPACE(1),  
              '0') 

SELECT @dossierId as '@dossierId'
      ,SPACE(LEN(@dossierId)) + convert(varchar(7)
      ,@dossierId) as withSpaces
      ,@padded_id as '@padded_id'