Round at specific decimal point

  • Hi, I am trying to round my numbers up to the nearest whole number if the decimal is equal to or greater than .7, for example 28.7 will be 29, or round down if it is below .7, for example, 28.6 will be 28.  I'm not sure If I need to truncate first and make a temp table or if there is a function that will do this.  If someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks!

  • this should do it. maybe make it into a Funtion

    DECLARE 
    @TestNumberdecimal(4,1) = 28.7
    ,@PreferredDecimaldecimal(4,1)= 0.7
    ;

    SELECT
    CASE WHEN @TestNumber - FLOOR(@TestNumber) >= @PreferredDecimal THEN CEILING(@TestNumber) ELSE FLOOR(@TestNumber) END
    ;

    SET @TestNumber = 28.6;

    SELECT
    CASE WHEN @TestNumber - FLOOR(@TestNumber) >= @PreferredDecimal THEN CEILING(@TestNumber) ELSE FLOOR(@TestNumber) END
    ;
  • Will this work?

    SELECT ROUND(@TestNumber - 0.2, 0);

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  • Alternatively

    SELECT ROUND(@TestNumber + 0.3, 0, 1);

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  • Didn't work, but thanks.

  • giszzmo wrote:

    Didn't work, but thanks.

    Here's my test script.

    DECLARE @i DECIMAL(5, 3) = 0;
    DECLARE @Inc DECIMAL(3, 2) = 0.01;

    WHILE @i < 2
    BEGIN
    PRINT CONCAT(@i, ', ', ROUND(@i + 0.3, 0, 1));

    SET @i = @i + @Inc;
    END;

    Now please show me yours.

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  • giszzmo wrote:

    Didn't work, but thanks.

    Which solution? And why?

    What have you tried?

  • This was going to go into a LOAD statement using QlikView (which uses SQL syntax) but just didn't work the way that I wanted it to so I had to put it into an Expression (which uses Excel syntax), so it came out something like =if(FRAC(column1 >.71, ceil(column1),floor(column1))).

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  • giszzmo wrote:

    This was going to go into a LOAD statement using QlikView (which uses SQL syntax)

    But it doesn't use T-SQL. You've asked on a SQL Server community here, and the SQL dialect that SQL Server uses is T-SQL.

    I have no idea what dialect QlikView SQL is based on; but I doubt it's T-SQL.

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    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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  • declare @num decimal

    set @num = 28.6 --28.7

    select case when (@num * 10) % 10 >= 7

    then

    ceiling(@num)

    else

    floor(@num)

    end

  • david.wootton wrote:

    declare @num decimal

    decimal what? Where's your scale and precision?

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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  • (38,0) default

  • david.wootton wrote:

    (38,0) default

    I think not. You should really test things before posting them here. Using a precision of 0 causes immediate rounding to the nearest whole number.

    2019-11-18_11-38-46

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
    - Martin Rees
    The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
    - Phil Parkin

  • Phil Parkin wrote:

    david.wootton wrote:

    (38,0) default

    I think not. You should really test things before posting them here. Using a precision of 0 causes immediate rounding to the nearest whole number.

    2019-11-18_11-38-46

    And this is exactly why I questioned you in the first place, David. It's so important that you declare your Length, Scales, and Precisions. Especially as the default values differ on the context omitted (i.e. a variable vs a column) and will cause unexpected results if undeclared.

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

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