Hardcode value in sql statement

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Hi,
This may be a simple thing which I'm missing.
I'm trying to hardcode numeric value in my SQL statement
'1.0000' AS NUMBER (10,4) - It returns value as 1 instead of 1.0000
'1.1255' AS NUMBER(10,4) - returns 1.1255
I need my o/p to be as 1.0000 not as 1.Is there anyway I can get the result as I'm looking for
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi,
847750 wrote:
Hi,
This may be a simple thing which I'm missing.
I'm trying to hardcode numeric value in my SQL statement
'1.0000' AS NUMBER (10,4) - It returns value as 1 instead of 1.0000
'1.1255' AS NUMBER(10,4) - returns 1.1255
I need my o/p to be as 1.0000 not as 1.Is there anyway I can get the result as I'm looking for
Thanks in advance
It's hard to tell what you really want to do from such a tiny code fragment.
Whenever you have a question, post a complete test script that people can run to re-create the problem and test their ideas.
The value 1 is exactly the same as the value 1.0000; there is no difference between those numbers.
If you want to display a number in a certain format (e.g. '1.0000' instead of '1'), the front end is probably the best place to do that.
If you're using SQL*Plus as the front end, you can set the display for the column called increase_pct like this:
COLUMN  increase_pct  FORMAT 990.0000
This will make it display the numbers in that column with at least 1 digit to the left of the decimal point, and exactly 4 digits to the right of the decimal point.
Other front end tools have similar features.
If you need to do the equivalent in SQL, use the TO_CHAR function, like this
SELECT  ename
,       TO_CHAR (sal, '99999.00')   AS salary
FROM    scott.emp
If you really are hard-coding literals, you can hard code a string, such as '1.0000'.  Don't CAST it to a NUMBER..