Question

`declare @totalItems int,
@totalPeople int,
@averageThings float;

select @totalItems = count(*) from table1
select @totalpeople = count(*) from tblvisits
select @averageThings = cast(@totalItems/@totalPeople as float)

select @averageThings, @totaPeople, @totalItems

This returns an integer instead of a float, I tried with and without the cast as float and got the same results, how to make it return a float

Answer 1

No, it returns a float. The value of the float may be an integer, but the type is a float. Which also answers your real question: you must perform the division using float operands, not cast the result of int division to float:

declare @totalItems float,
   @totalPeople float,
   @averageThings float;

select @totalItems = count(*) from table1
select @totalpeople = count(*) from tblvisits
select @averagecomorbids = @totalItems/@totalPeople;

select @averageThings, @totaPeople, @totalItems;

Your code will break with divide_by_zero if tblvisits is empty…