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Let's consider the following task Compute average capacity of PC hard drive getting the result with two decimal digits. Having executed the query we'll obtain the result:
To get needed format of output, we can use ROUND function:
The second argument of the function determine the number of decimal places to which the result must be rounded. The result demonstrates that we have arithmetic rounding. By the way, ROUND function has the third optional argument, which determines whether the result should be rounded (value of 0 - is default) or be truncated (the value other than 0). I.e. if to rewrite the query as follows то получим другой результат:
We can do rounding to any place, not only to a decimal one. For example, to get rounding to tens or hundreds and so on, you can use negative value of second argument. The following query is rounding the result to tens.
It should be noted that ROUND function does rounding but does not change the result type. I.e. if the first argument is of the dec(12,6) type, the result of rounding will be of the same type, namely,
It is easy to be convinced of it, having executed the query
Therefore, if you wish to get rid of trailing zeroes, use conversion to the type required, for example, dec (12,2). Then we don't need ROUND function at all. :-) |
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