I am having an issue with the SELECT statement. I want to do this:
SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE x=0.0509
but it returns no rows. I know for sure that there is a row with an x value of 0.0509. If I do:
SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE x=0
It does in fact return all rows where x=0, this means that my sql statement overall is correct. How do I SELECT where x is a number with decimals? I assume that the decimals is causing the issue?
maybe try balancing the search term between 2 values like this:
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE x BETWEEN 0 AND 0.1;
This worked for me :)
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Edit: I can't find any way to get the precise decimal but you can probably just do this but make the values:
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE x BETWEEN 0.05089999 AND 0.05090001;
This is probably your best way to do it, I'm pretty sure
The FLOAT is an approximate value. So, the stored value is not exactly 0.0509. You should use DECIMAL instead.
You can always convert the value to DECIMAL.
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE cast(x as decimal(10,4))=0.0509
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In Microsoft SQL Server 2005, why do the following commands produce integer results?
SELECT cast(151/6 AS DECIMAL(9,2))
SELECT 151/6
In the first you are getting the result of two integers and then casting the result as DECIMAL(9,2). In the second you're just dividing two integers and that's expected.
If you cast one of the integers as a decimal BEFORE you do the division, you'll get a decimal result.
SELECT 151/CAST(6 AS DECIMAL (9,2))
Yes that is standard behavior
do
SELECT 151/6.0
or
SELECT 151/(CONVERT(DECIMAL(9,2),6))
or
SELECT 151/(6 * 1.0)
Because 151 and 6 are integers and you are doing integer division, even before the cast.
You need to make sure at least one of the arguments is a float type:
SELECT 151.0/6
Or
SELECT 151/6.0
Not a direct answer to your question. Still worth to take a look at Operators in Expressions if you need this in SSRS
/ Divides two numbers and returns a floating-point result.
\ Divides two numbers and returns an integer result.
Mod Returns the integer remainder of a division.
You need to give a placeholder for decimal places as well
Example
SELECT 151.000000/6
OR
SELECT 151/6.000000
Both will produce
25.16666666
For the same reason they would in C#, Java and other mainstream languages.
In integer arithmetic, the CAST is after the maths...
The CAST statement is a bit verbose. You can use the following instead:
DECLARE #TO_FLOAT FLOAT = 1.0;
SELECT (1 * #TO_FLOAT) / 2;
Or use a different multiplier type like DECIMAL if you prefer.
Try this:
SELECT 1.0*cast(151/6 AS DECIMAL(9,2))
SELECT 1.0*151/6
I have a table with a float type column. Most values are like 5.67 but there are some weird ones like 5.44567999999999995
How can I count how many weird ones do I have? What do I have to change in the 2nd select, to give me the result as the 3rd select?
declare #a as float
set #a = 5.44567999999999995
select #a
select LEN(CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), ISNULL(#a, 0)))
select LEN('5.44567999999999995')
If you're just trying to find the "weird" ones and aren't really interested in the length of the values per se, then you might use the ROUND() function instead:
SELECT * FROM myTable
WHERE myValue != ROUND(myValue, 2);
Here "2" is the number of places after the decimal - this should find values that have 3 or more decimal places.
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to figure out a way, using SQL, to query for values that go out to, say, 5 or more decimal places. In other words, I want to see only results that have 5+ decimal places (e.g. 45.324754) - the numbers before the decimal are irrelevant, however, I still need to see the full number. Is this possible? Any help if appreciated.
Assuming your DBMS supports FLOOR and your datatype conversion model supports this multiplication, you can do this:
SELECT *
FROM Table
WHERE FLOOR(Num*100000)!=Num*100000
This has the advantage of not requiring a conversion to a string datatype.
On SQL Server, you can specify:
SELECT *
FROM Table
WHERE Value <> ROUND(Value,4,1);
For an ANSI method, you can use:
SELECT *
FROM Table
WHERE Value <> CAST(Value*100000.0 AS INT) / 100000.0;
Although this method might cause an overflow if you're working with large numbers.
I imagine most DBMSs have a round function
SELECT *
FROM YourTable
WHERE YourCol <> ROUND(YourCol,4)
This worked for me in SQL Server:
SELECT *
FROM YourTable
WHERE YourValue LIKE '%._____%';
select val
from tablename
where length(substr(val,instr(val, '.')+1)) > 5
This is a way to do it in oracle using substr and instr
You can use below decode statement to identify maximum decimal present in database table
SELECT max(decode(INSTR(val,'.'), 0, 0, LENGTH(SUBSTR(val,INSTR(val,'.')+1)))) max_decimal
FROM tablename A;
I have the following data:
[sequences]
/a1
/a2
/a3
...
/a10
The query SELECT * FROM sequences WHERE nbr <= '/a10' should return the list above, instead it returns:
[results]
/a1
/a10
How do I make it return all the rows in the above list?
It works as it should. To compare the numeric value, you'll have to convert these to numbers somehow. A good start would be to use substr(yourfieldname, 3) to cut of the/a. Then you can useconvert` to typecast it to int, so your final query will look something like:
select * from sequences where convert(int, substr(nbr, 3)) <= 10
Mind that the exact functions and rules for converting strings to ints may very per dbms. This illustrates the general idea, though.
SELECT *
FROM sequences
WHERE toInt(substring (nbr, 2)) <= 10;
Name and syntax of 'substring'-function and 'toInt' will vary from db-implementation to db-implementation.
I'm having trouble finding a way to write a query that will return all non-integers in a float column in SQL Server 2005/8.
I have a float field where the majority of the data in it is actually integers, but I'd like to take a look at the rows where the values actually contain a decimal value. The first thing I tried was modulus 1, but the % operator doesn't work on float values.
Thanks for your help!
I don't know exact syntax of MSSQL, however you could try something like that (pseudo-code)
SELECT ... FROM tbl_name WHERE col_name != CAST(col_name AS INTEGER)
are you just wanting the rows with a decimal in it?
select field
from table
where field like '%.%'
Try something like:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE (CONVERT(INT, floatField) - floatField) <> 0
You may also try this:
SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE col != ROUND(col)