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Integers: The Above Example Rounds Decimal Portions From 3 Digits (.193) To One Decimal Point (.2)

Round() works differently for integers and dates. For integers, it rounds decimal portions to a specified number of digits by using round(number, n) where n is the number of decimal places. For negative n, it rounds the number of places to the left of the decimal point. For dates, round() rounds to the start of the specified unit like year, month, or day.

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Integers: The Above Example Rounds Decimal Portions From 3 Digits (.193) To One Decimal Point (.2)

Round() works differently for integers and dates. For integers, it rounds decimal portions to a specified number of digits by using round(number, n) where n is the number of decimal places. For negative n, it rounds the number of places to the left of the decimal point. For dates, round() rounds to the start of the specified unit like year, month, or day.

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round():

it works differently for integers and dates


Integers
It rounds decimal portions to specified number of digits...
synatx: round(decimal number, n), where n specified no of decimal portions to show
Ex:
SELECT ROUND(15.193,1) "Round" FROM DUAL;

Round
----------
15.2

the above example rounds decimal portions from 3 digits (.193) to one decimal point(.2)

SELECT ROUND(1.5), ROUND(2.5) FROM DUAL;

ROUND(1.5) ROUND(2.5)
---------- ----------
2 3
in the above example, we have not specified the 'n' value in round function ...round(number, n), in this
case it removes decimal portion and rounds the number to nearest Integer
here 1.5 is nearst to 2, so result is 2 and 2.5 is nearest to 3
if we specifiy 1.4, we will get answer as 1.

The following example rounds a number one digit to the left of the decimal point:
SELECT ROUND(15.193,-1) "Round" FROM DUAL;

Round
----------
20
if we specify - values in 'n' portion as ..round(number, -n), then it completely removes decimal portion
and rounds the specified digits by -n
if you take round(15.193,-1), first it removes decimal portion, so result is 15, and -1 round first digit from
right side, i.e 5, 5 is more than or equal to 5 so it adds 1 to preceded digit, that is
1 5
1+1 0
=2 0
SELECT ROUND(315.193,-1) "Round" FROM DUAL;

Round
-----------
320

SELECT ROUND(335.193,-2) "Round" FROM DUAL;

Round
----------
300
the operation is done for two digits from the right side as we have given -2
first digit operation
3 3 5 (5>=5 so adds 1 to preceded number and 5 becomes 0 )
3 3+1 0 =3 4 0
second digit operation
3 4 (4<=5 so no number added to preceded digit and 4 becomes to 0) 0
3 0 0

Round function Examples on Date
The following example rounds a date to the first day of the following year:
SELECT ROUND (TO_DATE ('27-OCT-00'),'YEAR')
"New Year" FROM DUAL;

New Year
---------
01-JAN-01

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