> I have a field in a table designated as a char(2) type and I am trying
> to update it with a value of "09", but when I do this it, the value
> written into the table is just "9" i.e. the leading zero is removed.
>
> How can I retain the string value as "09"?

I guess this should work:

update mytable set mycol = '09'

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