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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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fo*********@yahoo.com (kumu) wrote in news:a44abd39.0310310826.2a8a73a5
@posting.google.com:
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(column,'0');

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Ken Denny
http://www.kendenny.com/
Jul 19 '05 #2
Thanks Ken
Jul 19 '05 #3
Blauko
1
thx, exactly what I was lookin for! :D
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