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;

这是我通常如何填充一个varchar

WHILE Len(@String) < 8
BEGIN
    SELECT @String = '0' + @String
END

@padstr = REPLICATE(@padchar, @len) -- this can be cached, done only once

SELECT RIGHT(@padstr + @str, @len)

这是一个简单的左填充方法:

REPLACE(STR(FACT_HEAD.FACT_NO, x, 0), ' ', y)

其中x是填充号y是填充字符。

示例:

REPLACE(STR(FACT_HEAD.FACT_NO, 3, 0), ' ', 0)

我不确定你给出的方法真的是低效的，但另一种方法，只要它不需要灵活的长度或填充字符，将是(假设你想用“0”到10个字符填充它:

DECLARE
   @pad_characters VARCHAR(10)

SET @pad_characters = '0000000000'

SELECT RIGHT(@pad_characters + @str, 10)

也许是一个过度杀戮，我有这些udf垫左和右

ALTER   Function [dbo].[fsPadLeft](@var varchar(200),@padChar char(1)='0',@len int)
returns varchar(300)
as
Begin

return replicate(@PadChar,@len-Len(@var))+@var

end

向右

ALTER function [dbo].[fsPadRight](@var varchar(200),@padchar char(1)='0', @len int) returns varchar(201) as
Begin

--select @padChar=' ',@len=200,@var='hello'


return  @var+replicate(@PadChar,@len-Len(@var))
end