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

February 25, 2023 by Tarik

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