how to get 2 digits after decimal point in tsql?

Question

I am having problem to format digits in my select column.I used FORMAT but it doesn\'t work. Here is my column:

sum(cast(datediff(second, IEC.CREATE_DATE, IEC.ST         


        

Answer 1

You could cast it to DECIMAL and specify the scale to be 2 digits

decimal and numeric

So, something like

DECLARE @i AS FLOAT = 2
SELECT @i / 3
SELECT CAST(@i / 3 AS DECIMAL(18,2))

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I would however recomend that this be done in the UI/Report layer, as this will cuase loss of precision.

Formatting (in my opinion) should happen on the UI/Report/Display level.