Showing posts with label REPLICATE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label REPLICATE. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2011

Display only last charecters and replace all other digits will be by "X"

There was a request that confidential numbers should be displayed so that only last four digits are displayed and all other digits will be replaced by "X".
I planned to do it in DB and started to search a method to do it. Initially I thought I will need function but after spending some time I found that there is no need to write any function.
Following is the Query that can be used

SELECT  REPLICATE('X',LEN(AccountNo)-4)+RIGHT(RTRIM(AccountNo),4) as AccountNo,AccountNo as s from Accounts