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  • January 18, 2009 at 11:15 am

    #928939

    Cast them to numeric(9,2) before casting to varchar. It will cause the value to be rounded and then displayed with 2 decimals.

    eg: replace CAST(DeliveredQty AS VARCHAR(10)) with CAST(CAST(DeliveredQty AS NUMERIC(9,2)) AS VARCHAR(10))

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