Re: simple division

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 09:13, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
> SELECT ceil(10/4.0);
>
> Is what you want for that example.

Except that implies that "number of people who can fit in a car" is a
real number, not a whole.

IMO it's fundamentally broken that SQL doesn't cast the result of a
divide into a numeric value - the potential for unexpected errors
creeping into calculations is huge; however that's the standard and
no-one's going to change it now.

Having said that it's worth noting that those in the Other Place think
that it's broken enough to go against the standard (they have a DIV b
for integer divide and a/b for float).

Geoff