How to format a numeric column as phone number in SQL

Question

I have table in the database with a phone number column. The numbers look like this:

123456789

I want to format that to look like this:

Answer 1

Solutions that use SUBSTRING and concatenation + are nearly independent of RDBMS. Here is a short solution that is specific to SQL Server:

declare @x int = 123456789
select stuff(stuff(@x, 4, 0, '-'), 8, 0, '-')

Answer 2

You can also try this:

CREATE  function [dbo].[fn_FormatPhone](@Phone varchar(30)) 
returns varchar(30)
As
Begin
declare @FormattedPhone varchar(30)

set     @Phone = replace(@Phone, '.', '-') --alot of entries use periods instead of dashes
set @FormattedPhone =
    Case
      When isNumeric(@Phone) = 1 Then
        case
          when len(@Phone) = 10 then '('+substring(@Phone, 1, 3)+')'+ ' ' +substring(@Phone, 4, 3)+ '-' +substring(@Phone, 7, 4)
          when len(@Phone) = 7  then substring(@Phone, 1, 3)+ '-' +substring(@Phone, 4, 4)
          else @Phone
        end
      When @phone like '[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' Then '('+substring(@Phone, 1, 3)+')'+ ' ' +substring(@Phone, 5, 3)+ '-' +substring(@Phone, 8, 4)
      When @phone like '[0-9][0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' Then '('+substring(@Phone, 1, 3)+')'+ ' ' +substring(@Phone, 5, 3)+ '-' +substring(@Phone, 9, 4)
      When @phone like '[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' Then '('+substring(@Phone, 1, 3)+')'+ ' ' +substring(@Phone, 5, 3)+ '-' +substring(@Phone, 9, 4)
      Else @Phone
    End
return  @FormattedPhone

end

use on it select

(SELECT [dbo].[fn_FormatPhone](f.coffphone)) as 'Phone'

Output will be

Answer 3

You Can Use FORMAT if you column is a number Syntax like FORMAT ( value, format [, culture ] ) In use like FORMAT ( @d, 'D', 'en-US' ) or FORMAT(123456789,'###-##-####') (But This works for only SQL SERVER 2012 And After)

In Use Like UPDATE TABLE_NAME SET COLUMN_NAME = FORMAT(COLUMN_NAME ,'###-##-####')

And

if your column is Varchar Or Nvarchar use do like this CONCAT(SUBSTRING(CELLPHONE,0,4),' ',SUBSTRING(CELLPHONE,4,3),' ',SUBSTRING(CELLPHONE,7,2) ,' ',SUBSTRING(CELLPHONE,9,2) )

You can always get help from

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213505.aspx

Answer 4

I found that this works if wanting in a (123) - 456-7890 format.

UPDATE table 
SET Phone_number =  '(' +  
                    SUBSTRING(Phone_number, 1, 3) 
                    + ') ' 
                    + '- ' +
                    SUBSTRING(Phone_number, 4, 3) 
                    + '-' +
                    SUBSTRING(Phone_number, 7, 4)