Question

Is there any way to cast a number into a decimal with a specified number of decimal places? I tried:

SELECT ...
       CAST(NumericField AS NUMERIC(15, @DecimalPlaces) AS NumericField,
       ...

But it didn’t work.

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EDIT: I made a mistake and wrote NUMBER instead of NUMERIC. But the question stands still: How do I cast to a NUMERIC with a specified number of decimal places?

Answer 1

declare @decimal int=5
declare @decimalNum float =8931.0380106023125083

select ROUND(@decimalNum, @decimal,1)

For trailing zeros use this:

declare @decimal int=5
declare @decimalNum float =8931.12

select STR(@decimalNum, 25, @decimal)

Please note, the above select will return a varchar type, not decimal, numeric, float or any other types.