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                                         anupalavila 
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                                             Posted - 2013-12-17 : 08:40:12
                                            
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                                            | I have a table attendance with fields empId,normalhrs,normalmins which are integer types.I am storing the working hrs and mins seprately, How can I make a selection such that I could select by adding normalhrs and normalmins.eg: if in field normalhrs -->8 and in normalmins --> 30 I could select as 8.30Thanks and Regards Anu Palavila | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     khtan 
                                    In (Som, Ni, Yak) 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2013-12-17 : 08:46:24
                                          
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                                          [code]select normalhrs + normalmins / 100.0[/code] KH[spoiler]Time is always against us[/spoiler]  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     webfred 
                                    Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2013-12-17 : 08:51:35
                                          
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                                          with testdata you can see what is possible:declare @sample table (normalhours int, normalmins int)insert @sampleselect 8,30 union allselect 11,45select str(normalhours,len(normalhours))+'.'+str(normalmins,len(normalmins)) from @sampleselect convert(varchar(10),normalhours)+'.'+convert(varchar(10),normalmins) from @sampleselect normalhours + normalmins / 100.0 from @sample Too old to Rock'n'Roll too young to die.  | 
                                         
                                        
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