tsql - How do I get the month and day with leading 0's in SQL? (e.g. 9 => 09)

Question

DECLARE @day CHAR(2)

SET @day = DATEPART(DAY, GETDATE())

PRINT @day

If today was the 9th of December, the above would print "9".

I want to print "09". How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Pad it with 00 and take the right 2:

DECLARE @day CHAR(2)

SET @day = RIGHT('00' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2), DATEPART(DAY, GETDATE())), 2)

print @day