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Removing Leading Zeros Using SQL

Hi, Is there a way to write an update statement to remove leading
zeros from a column? The column is a varchar field and the number of
zeros vary.
Thanks in Advance
Jul 19 '05 #1
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Hi, Is there a way to write an update statement to remove leading
zeros from a column? The column is a varchar field and the number of
zeros vary.
Thanks in Advance


UPDATE table
SET column=LTRIM(co lumn,'0');

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Ken Denny
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Jul 19 '05 #2
Thanks Ken
Jul 19 '05 #3
Blauko
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thx, exactly what I was lookin for! :D
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