Convert Integer to String in SQL Server

A very frequently asked question is how to convert an Integer to String in SQL Server. Here are 3 different ways of doing the same task:

DECLARE @i int
SET @i=98235

--Method 1 : Use CAST function
SELECT CAST(@i as varchar(10))

--Method 2 : Use CONVERT function
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10),@i)

--Method 3 : Use STR function
SELECT LTRIM(STR(@i,10))

All of them result in the same output

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Madhivanan,an MSc computer Science graduate from Chennai-India, works as a works as a Lead Subject Matter Expert at a company that simplifies BIG data. He started his career as a developer working with Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Report 8. As years went by, he started working more on writing queries in SQL Server. He now has good level of knowledge in SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL as well. He is also one of the leading posters at www.sqlteam.com and a moderator at www.sql-server-performance.com. His T-sql blog is at http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan