February 19, 2013 at 7:40 am
This shouldn't be too hard but I'm still having trouble getting the fractional part of a decimal number using SSIS expressions without jumping through a lot of hoops.
I found this simple method to get the fractional part using T-SQL.
Select 1.2 % 1
So of course I thought, "SSIS expressions have a modulo operator, I'll just use that." But it doesn't work. It looks like you can only use integers when using the modulo operator in an expression.
Short of converting the decimal to a string, finding the decimal position using Findstring, then digging out the fractional part using a substring function, what is the best option for getting the fractional part of a decimal number?
February 19, 2013 at 8:20 am
How about
1.2 - FLOOR(1.2)
Floor returns the largest integer that is less than or equal to the numeric expression
February 19, 2013 at 8:36 am
Daniel Bowlin (2/19/2013)
How about1.2 - FLOOR(1.2)
Floor returns the largest integer that is less than or equal to the numeric expression
Not true for negatives. Try this:
select -11.2 - floor(-11.2)
But stick to positive numbers, or use ABS() too and it should work.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
February 19, 2013 at 9:05 am
Awesome! That works!
I was already using Floor to pull out the integer part of the decimal. It didn't occur to me to use floor to subtract the integer from the decimal to get the fractional part. The only part I had to add was a cast to decimal to get the result; in my case:
(DT_DECIMAL,2)((1.2 - FLOOR(1.2)) * 100))
Thanks!
February 19, 2013 at 9:07 am
Thanks Phil,
In my case, this will always be a positive decimal. But you made a good point.
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