How do I get the month and day with leading 0's in SQL? (e.g. 9 => 09)

Question

DECLARE @day CHAR(2)

SET @day = DATEPART(DAY, GETDATE())

PRINT @day

If today was the 9th of December, the above would print \"9\".

I want

Answer 1

SQL Server 2012+ (for both month and day):

SELECT FORMAT(GetDate(),'MMdd')

If you decide you want the year too, use:

SELECT FORMAT(GetDate(),'yyyyMMdd')