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Proper way to get decimal results from arithmetic with integers and decimals

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From BobRoyAce <broy@omegasoftwareinc.com>
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Subject Proper way to get decimal results from arithmetic with integers and decimals
Date Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT)
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Let's say that I have a table with two fields: InfPctField and
DecimalField, where the first is of type INT and the latter is
DECIMAL(16,2).

When I write a query as...

SELECT DecimalField * IntPctField / 100. AS TheAnswer

TheAnswer comes back as ZERO followed by decimals, with all decimal
digits ZEROs (e.g. 0.00000).

What is the correct syntax to get back nonzero values?

For example, when DecimalField is 1200.00 and IntPctField is 30, I
should get 360.00.

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Proper way to get decimal results from arithmetic with integers and decimals BobRoyAce <broy@omegasoftwareinc.com> - 2011-07-20 21:36 -0700
  Re: Proper way to get decimal results from arithmetic with integers and decimals Henk van den Berg <me@myplace.net> - 2011-07-21 09:23 +0200
    Re: Proper way to get decimal results from arithmetic with integers and decimals BobRoyAce <broy@omegasoftwareinc.com> - 2011-07-22 00:08 -0700

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