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Message Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2012 @ 01:16:43 GMT

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This one works as well, but sorry Deiter, yours padded the result with blanks at the beginning (although using the negative sign rather than multiplying by -1 was a nice catch. To summarize the 3 replies:

     select  cast (cast(acct_id*-1 as bigint ) as char(29)) as Glenn
           , -acct_id (format '-(15)9') (char(29)) as Deiter
           , cast (cast(acct_id*-1 as format '-(15)9' ) as char(29)) as Fred
     from (
        select cast(123775780 as DECIMAL(15,0)) as acct_id
        ) xxx

And the explanation from Mahesh was useful and enlightening.

Thanks all!

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