🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: borland.public.vdbase.data.sql
Article #114

Re: SQL returns only integers

#114
From: tt
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:00
46 lines
1936 bytes
steve,

sorry, i tried to show my table-data in an easy way but at second reading i
could have done better. i hope this is better to understand.

my query (it is only for explanation, i know it does not make much sense):

SELECT  Price ,
    CAST(AVG(Price) AS NUMERIC(9, 2)) AS COL1,
    SUM (Price) AS COL2,
    AVG (Price)  AS COL3
FROM Products
GROUP BY Price

my source table is called 'Products', the field is called 'Price'. it looks
like this:

price
--------
0,00
100,00
123,45
234,56

this is the result of the above query:

price            COL1        COL2        COL3
---------------------------------------------
0,00            0                0                0
100,00        100            100            100
123,45        123            123            123
234,56        235            235            235

in the price column (where i simply selected the values), the returned values
are the same as in the table including the commas. to me it means that i do
not have a general comma-problem with my field or the bde.

in the other columns where i calculated a little bit, i only receive rounded
integers:
123,45 is rounded to 123,
234,56 is rounded to 235.

why? wtf tells him to round my values?

thanks for answering.
thomas trautwein
Technical Details
Message-ID: <36A0CBE4.10609457@trautwein.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <36991111.F42B21F0@trautwein.com> <369b6710.16566284@forums.inprise.com> <369FC156.724F04E5@trautwein.com> <36a8cdc8.24528496@forums.inprise.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: ff5a1,fc8f9f82181d59ea
X-Google-Attributes: gidff5a1,public
From: tt <thomas@trautwein.com>
Subject: Re: SQL returns only integers
Date: 1999/01/16
Message-ID: <36A0CBE4.10609457@trautwein.com>
X-Deja-AN: 433379864
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <36991111.F42B21F0@trautwein.com> <369b6710.16566284@forums.inprise.com> <369FC156.724F04E5@trautwein.com> <36a8cdc8.24528496@forums.inprise.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: borland.public.vdbase.data.sql