This came in very handy for me at one point because I needed to have a certain field in each row 14 characters long, but half of them were only 12 characters long.
In MySQL:
update `table` set `field` = CONCAT(`field`, '1') where LEN(`field`) = 13;
In MSSQL:
update `table` set `field` = CONCAT(`field`, '1') where LENGTH(`field`) = 13;