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NaomiR
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Posted - 03/12/2012 :  13:10:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Essentially I'm having difficulty generating a numeric value with a query.

The query in its very (very!) simplest form is:

Select 5/10

Giving a result of 0

If i run:

Select 4.9/10

I get 0.49 as expected.

Can someone explain the logic of this (to a beginner).

Thanks,

Naomi

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 03/12/2012 :  13:15:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
see this

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/01/16/beware-of-implicit-conversions.aspx

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