Rounding up to fifth decimal

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Rounding up to fifth decimal

tarr94

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April 8, 2014 at 11:17 am

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Hi,
I have a field that stores 8 decimals, but I want to select this field in a query with the decimals rounded up to the fifth. The rounding up should always occur, even if the number is below five. For example:
83.00381433 rounds up to 83.00382000
I've played around with the CEILING function, but I'm not sure how to make it apply to the fifth decimal place.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.

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Doug J. SSC Eights! Points: 832 More actions · Answer 1

Interesting question. Try putting together a CASE statement using the ROUND() function. Something like this:

declare @num numeric(10, 8) = 83.00381433 ;

SELECT CASE

WHEN round(@num, 5) - @Num < 0 THEN round(@num, 5) + .00001

ELSE round(@num, 5) END;

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it should work

Edit: corrected boneheaded arithmetic error.

-Doug

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 2

Maybe you didn't play enough with the ceiling function. 😉

DECLARE @num numeric(10, 8) = 83.00381433 ;

SELECT CEILING( @num * 100000) / 100000;

Luis C.
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tarr94 SSCommitted Points: 1684 More actions · Answer 3

Thank you both for responding. I tried the solution from Luis first (it was the simpler of the two) and found that it works like a charm. Guess I gave up on the Ceiling function too quickly.