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 created a function to do this, where you can specify the desired output character length:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udfLeadingZero]
(
        @String VARCHAR(MAX)
,       @Len INT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
BEGIN
    SET @String = RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',@Len)+@String,@Len)
RETURN @String
END
GO

Example results