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October

How Do I write a percentage formula in SQL

During a recent training session, a number of delegates asked how do they write a percentage formula, that does not result in 0.

When writing percentage formulas within SQL, it always returns a 0.

Solution:

The only way to resolve this issue, to convert both the denominator and numerator fields to Float data types, while creating the percentage formula:

(CAST(Numerator) As Float / CAST(Denominator ) As Float ) * 100

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