Division question

I'm trying to divide 14/30. I would like to show my
output as 0.4666. Using the % gives me 14. How can I
get the output that I want?
TIA,
Vic
Because your SELECT statement doesn't specifiy any data types the values are
assumed to be integers. Integer division will return an integer result.
You can include a decimal which will give a decimal result:
SELECT 14/30.0
Or you can specify a data type explicitly:
SELECT 14/CAST(30 AS REAL)
Both of the above will return a result with decimal precision but if you
want a particular number of decimals in the output you will have to CAST or
ROUND the result or do the formatting in your client app.
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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Aaron Bertrand
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"Vic" <vduran@.specpro-inc.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to divide 14/30. I would like to show my
> output as 0.4666. Using the % gives me 14. How can I
> get the output that I want?
> TIA,
> Vic