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DIGITS

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The DIGITS() function allows for turning numbers to 0-padded string that makes sorting those strings according to numeric values easier when concatenated to other strings. The padding depends on the number's data type, precision, and scale.

SELECT digits(cast(1234.5 as decimal(8, 2)));
create.select(digits(cast(val(1234.5), DECIMAL(8, 2)))).fetch();

The result being

+----------+
| digits   |
+----------+
| 00123450 |
+----------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

digits(cast(val(1234.5), DECIMAL(7, 2)))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

(replace(space(7 - len(cstr(cdec(abs((cdec(1.2345E3) * 100)))))), ' ', '0') & cstr(cdec(abs((cdec(1.2345E3) * 100)))))

ASE

(replicate(
  '0',
  (7 - char_length(CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7))))
) || CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)))

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS char(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

Aurora Postgres, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Postgres, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

BigQuery

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal) * 100)) AS decimal) AS string),
  7,
  '0'
)

ClickHouse, DB2

digits(CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)))

CockroachDB

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(CAST(1.2345E3 AS double precision) AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS string(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

H2

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(CAST(1.2345E3 AS double) AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

Informix

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS lvarchar(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

Oracle

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar2(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

Snowflake

lpad(
  CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS number(7, 2)) * 100)) AS number(7)) AS varchar(7)),
  7,
  '0'
)

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

(replicate(
  '0',
  (7 - len(CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7))))
) + CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)))

SQLite

substr("replace"(hex(zeroblob(7)), '00', '0'), 1, 7 - length(CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)))) || CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7))

Sybase

(repeat(
  '0',
  (7 - length(CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7))))
) || CAST(CAST(abs((CAST(1.2345E3 AS decimal(7, 2)) * 100)) AS decimal(7)) AS varchar(7)))

Derby, Redshift

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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