Dividing 2 numbers in Sql Server

Question

I am doing SQL Server query calculations and the division always gives me zero.

SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED) 
, SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED)
, SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED) /          


        

Answer 1

The two problems are that you

1. perform an integer division (SUM returns an integer), and
2. you swapped the dividend and the divisor (that's why you get zero instead of one).

This is how you could fix it (note that LINES_ORDERED and LINES_CONFIRMED are swapped):

SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED) 
, SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED)
, (1.0*SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED)) / SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED) AS 'Percent'

Answer 2

try

SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED) * 1.0 / SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED)

An integer devision can only return full numbers and not floating point numbers. You can force a floating point division like in the example above.

Answer 3

Try it like this:

SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED) 
, SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED)
, SUM(sl.LINES_CONFIRMED)*1.0 / SUM(sl.LINES_ORDERED)

Answer 4

It will be because you're divinding two integers.

Convert the two values in the division to decimals first:

, SUM(convert(decimal(12,2),sl.LINES_CONFIRMED)) 
/ SUM(convert(decimal(12,2),sl.LINES_ORDERED)) AS 'Percent'