Write a number with two decimal places SQL Server

Question

Try this

SELECT CONVERT(DECIMAL(10,2),YOURCOLUMN)

such as

SELECT CONVERT(DECIMAL(10,2),2.999999)

will result in output 3.00

Use Str() Function. It takes three arguments(the number, the number total characters to display, and the number of decimal places to display

  Select Str(12345.6789, 12, 3)

displays: ' 12345.679' ( 3 spaces, 5 digits 12345, a decimal point, and three decimal digits (679). - it rounds if it has to truncate, (unless the integer part is too large for the total size, in which case asterisks are displayed instead.)

for a Total of 12 characters, with 3 to the right of decimal point.

Generally you can define the precision of a number in SQL by defining it with parameters. For most cases this will be NUMERIC(10,2) or Decimal(10,2) - will define a column as a Number with 10 total digits with a precision of 2 (decimal places).

Edited for clarity

This is how the kids are doing it today:

DECLARE @test DECIMAL(18,6) = 123.456789
SELECT FORMAT(@test, '##.##')

123.46

This work for me and always keeps two digits fractions

23.1 ==> 23.10

25.569 ==> 25.56

1 ==> 1.00

Cast(CONVERT(DECIMAL(10,2),Value1) as nvarchar) AS Value2

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If you only need two decimal places, simplest way is..

SELECT CAST(12 AS DECIMAL(16,2))

OR

SELECT CAST('12' AS DECIMAL(16,2))

Output

12.00