Adjust number of decimal places

I have a column used in my report that has values such as:
496.1000
These are money values and thus I require them to be in the format:
496.10
How do I get rid of the two extra zeroes?
(my sql statement actually does it, but they still appear in reporting
services for some reason)
Thanks!Don't worry about the above - I found the answer in the SQL 2005
documentation
For those interested, it was under:
Formatting Numeric and Date Values in a Report
Cheers
On Dec 18, 9:27 am, "David Conte" <davco...@.gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a column used in my report that has values such as:
> 496.1000
> These are money values and thus I require them to be in the format:
> 496.10
> How do I get rid of the two extra zeroes?
> (my sql statement actually does it, but they still appear in reporting
> services for some reason)
> Thanks!

Adding number of decimal places during table design

Hello,

Nice easy one (hopefully) from a newbie on SQL 2000.

I have a table HolidayTakenBooked which is populated from a stored procedure via the following statement;

TRUNCATE TABLE HolidayTakenBooked
INSERT INTO HolidayTakenBooked
SELECT * FROM #TMP_HolidayTakenBooked ORDER BY ABR_Clock_No

I am finding that for certain values in the HolidayTakenBooked table decimals are not being transferred correctly. ie. 0.5 in the TMP table appears as 1 in the HolidayTakenBooked table.

I'm pretty sure that this is down to the data definition of the table see sample field below;
[HOL_DaysTaken1] [decimal](18, 0) NULL ,

So the simple question here is how do I define decimal places when I define a new table. When designing a new table in Enterprise Manager I select decimal and the server does not allow me to change the value of 9 it defaults to.

What simple thing I am not doing ?

Cheers
NealPut values in Scale properties,you will find it just below precision if you are creating tables in EM design Table option...|||Many thanks.
Neal

Adding Leading Zeros

I need to make sure that numbers returned form a SELECT have at least one digit before the decimal point. Right now I have the following SQL statement in a DTS

SELECT PIN, ROUND (SUM(AREA/43560), 2) AS Expr1
FROM table GROUP BY PIN ORDER BY PIN

This produces lines like this ...

1-0005 -01-001,6250.410000
1-0008 -01-001,940.810000
1-0010 -01-001,9.230000
1-0010 -01-001A,.730000
1-0010 -01-002,73.520000
1-0010 -01-003,.680000

I need the output to look like this (check lines 4 and 6) ...

1-0005 -01-001,6250.410000
1-0008 -01-001,940.810000
1-0010 -01-001,9.230000
1-0010 -01-001A,0.730000
1-0010 -01-002,73.520000
1-0010 -01-003,0.680000

Any ideas?

DavidHello,

when you use Oracle you can convert the sum to a char with a special format mask

SELECT PIN, TO_CHAR(ROUND (SUM(AREA/43560), 2), '0.99' AS Expr1

Hope that helps ?

Regards
Manfred Peter
(Alligator Company)
http://www.alligatorsql.com|||Oops. Forgot to mention that I'm running SQLServer 7. Haven't found a comparable function yet.

David|||Hello again,

that is important :)

SELECT PIN, CAST(ROUND (SUM(AREA/43560), 2) AS MONEY) AS Expr1

I am using the enterprise manager and it look ok ...

Hope this help ?

Regards
Manfred Peter
(Alligator Company)
http://www.alligatorsql.com|||When I tried

CAST(ROUND (SUM(AREA/43560), 2) AS MONEY)

I still got the following results

6250.4100
940.8100
9.2300
.7300
73.5200
.6800

:confused:

However, taking your lead, I tried

CAST(ROUND (SUM(AREA/43560), 2) AS CHAR)

and got

6250.410000
940.810000
9.230000
0.730000
73.520000
0.680000

:)

Works for me! Thanks!

David

adding commas into integer

while selecting the field, I want it to be display with commas.
for example,
10000 become 10,000
without decimal placed at the end.
I have tried using smallmoney format but there is decimal places.Take a look at DECIMAL datatype
"dapdap" <dapdap@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22FBBC46-4B9D-4377-A806-D4D79EE81013@.microsoft.com...
> while selecting the field, I want it to be display with commas.
> for example,
> 10000 become 10,000
> without decimal placed at the end.
> I have tried using smallmoney format but there is decimal places.|||Formatting is controlled by your client application, not by SQL Server. Ask
this question in a forum for the app or programming language you are using.
Certainly you could get SQL to return a string instead of a number but why
would you want to do that with the obvious divantages for performance,
complexity and special handling at the client?
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--
"dapdap" wrote:

> while selecting the field, I want it to be display with commas.
> for example,
> 10000 become 10,000
> without decimal placed at the end.
> I have tried using smallmoney format but there is decimal places.|||>> selecting the field, I want it to be display with commas. <<
Let's get back to the basics of an RDBMS. Rows are not records; fields
are not columns; tables are not files. In a tiered architecture, the
display formatting is done in the front end and never in the database.
A good SQL programmer avoids proprietary datatypes.