相比之下,说:

REPLICATE(@padchar, @len - LEN(@str)) + @str

当前回答

下面是我的解决方案,它避免了截断字符串并使用普通的SQL。感谢@AlexCuse, @Kevin和@Sklivvz,他们的解决方案是这段代码的基础。

 --[@charToPadStringWith] is the character you want to pad the string with.
declare @charToPadStringWith char(1) = 'X';

-- Generate a table of values to test with.
declare @stringValues table (RowId int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, StringValue varchar(max) NULL);
insert into @stringValues (StringValue) values (null), (''), ('_'), ('A'), ('ABCDE'), ('1234567890');

-- Generate a table to store testing results in.
declare @testingResults table (RowId int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, StringValue varchar(max) NULL, PaddedStringValue varchar(max) NULL);

-- Get the length of the longest string, then pad all strings based on that length.
declare @maxLengthOfPaddedString int = (select MAX(LEN(StringValue)) from @stringValues);
declare @longestStringValue varchar(max) = (select top(1) StringValue from @stringValues where LEN(StringValue) = @maxLengthOfPaddedString);
select [@longestStringValue]=@longestStringValue, [@maxLengthOfPaddedString]=@maxLengthOfPaddedString;

-- Loop through each of the test string values, apply padding to it, and store the results in [@testingResults].
while (1=1)
begin
    declare
        @stringValueRowId int,
        @stringValue varchar(max);

    -- Get the next row in the [@stringLengths] table.
    select top(1) @stringValueRowId = RowId, @stringValue = StringValue
    from @stringValues 
    where RowId > isnull(@stringValueRowId, 0) 
    order by RowId;

    if (@@ROWCOUNT = 0) 
        break;

    -- Here is where the padding magic happens.
    declare @paddedStringValue varchar(max) = RIGHT(REPLICATE(@charToPadStringWith, @maxLengthOfPaddedString) + @stringValue, @maxLengthOfPaddedString);

    -- Added to the list of results.
    insert into @testingResults (StringValue, PaddedStringValue) values (@stringValue, @paddedStringValue);
end

-- Get all of the testing results.
select * from @testingResults;

其他回答

我知道这在这一点上没有增加太多的对话,但我正在运行一个文件生成程序,它的速度非常慢。我一直在使用复制,看到了这种修剪方法,并认为我应该给它一个机会。

在我的代码中,你可以看到在这两个变量之间的切换是除了新的@padding变量(以及现在存在的限制)。我在两种状态下用函数运行我的过程,在执行时间内得到了相同的结果。因此,至少在SQLServer2016中,我没有看到其他发现的效率有任何差异。

无论如何,这是我的UDF,我写了几年前加上今天的变化,这是非常相同的,因为它有一个左/右参数选项和一些错误检查。

CREATE FUNCTION PadStringTrim 
(
    @inputStr varchar(500), 
    @finalLength int, 
    @padChar varchar (1),
    @padSide varchar(1)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(500)

AS BEGIN
    -- the point of this function is to avoid using replicate which is extremely slow in SQL Server
    -- to get away from this though we now have a limitation of how much padding we can add, so I've settled on a hundred character pad 
    DECLARE @padding VARCHAR (100) = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    SET @padding = REPLACE(@padding, 'X', @padChar)


    SET @inputStr = RTRIM(LTRIM(@inputStr))

    IF LEN(@inputStr) > @finalLength 
        RETURN '!ERROR!' -- can search for ! in the returned text 

    ELSE IF(@finalLength > LEN(@inputStr))
        IF @padSide = 'L'
            SET @inputStr = RIGHT(@padding + @inputStr, @finalLength)
            --SET @inputStr = REPLICATE(@padChar, @finalLength - LEN(@inputStr)) + @inputStr
        ELSE IF @padSide = 'R'
            SET @inputStr = LEFT(@inputStr + @padding, @finalLength)
            --SET @inputStr = @inputStr + REPLICATE(@padChar, @finalLength - LEN(@inputStr)) 



    -- if LEN(@inputStr) = @finalLength we just return it 
    RETURN @inputStr;
END

-- SELECT  dbo.PadStringTrim( tblAccounts.account, 20, '~' , 'R' ) from tblAccounts
-- SELECT  dbo.PadStringTrim( tblAccounts.account, 20, '~' , 'L' ) from tblAccounts

我喜欢vnRocks的解决方案,这里是一个udf的形式

create function PadLeft(
      @String varchar(8000)
     ,@NumChars int
     ,@PadChar char(1) = ' ')
returns varchar(8000)
as
begin
    return stuff(@String, 1, 0, replicate(@PadChar, @NumChars - len(@String)))
end

可能有点夸张,我经常使用这个UDF:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[f_pad_before](@string VARCHAR(255), @desired_length INTEGER, @pad_character CHAR(1))
RETURNS VARCHAR(255) AS  
BEGIN

-- Prefix the required number of spaces to bulk up the string and then replace the spaces with the desired character
 RETURN ltrim(rtrim(
        CASE
          WHEN LEN(@string) < @desired_length
            THEN REPLACE(SPACE(@desired_length - LEN(@string)), ' ', @pad_character) + @string
          ELSE @string
        END
        ))
END

这样你就可以做这样的事情:

select dbo.f_pad_before('aaa', 10, '_')

我知道这个问题最初是在2008年提出的,但是在SQL Server 2012中引入了一些新函数。FORMAT函数很好地简化了以零结尾的填充。它也会为你执行转换:

declare @n as int = 2
select FORMAT(@n, 'd10') as padWithZeros

更新:

我想亲自测试FORMAT函数的实际效率。我很惊讶地发现,与AlexCuse的原始答案相比,效率不是很好。虽然我发现FORMAT函数更简洁,但就执行时间而言,它不是很高效。我使用的tallytable有64,000条记录。Martin Smith指出了执行时间效率。

SET STATISTICS TIME ON
select FORMAT(N, 'd10') as padWithZeros from Tally
SET STATISTICS TIME OFF

SQL Server执行次数: CPU时间= 2157 ms,运行时间= 2696 ms。

SET STATISTICS TIME ON
select right('0000000000'+ rtrim(cast(N as varchar(5))), 10) from Tally
SET STATISTICS TIME OFF

SQL Server执行次数:

CPU时间= 31 ms,运行时间= 235 ms。

我希望这能帮助到一些人。

STUFF ( character_expression , start , length ,character_expression )

select stuff(@str, 1, 0, replicate('0', @n - len(@str)))