ROUND Function

The ROUND function in SQL is used to round a number to a specified precision. The syntax is:

ROUND (expression, [decimal place])

where [decimal place] indicates the number of decimal points returned. A negative number means the rounding will occur to the digit to the left of the decimal point. For example, -1 means the number will be rounded to the nearest tens.

Let's go through an example to see how the ROUND function is used. Let's assume we have the following table:

Table Student_Rating

StudentIDinteger
First_Namechar(20)
Ratingfloat

and this table contains the following rows:

Table Student_Rating

StudentIDFirst_NameRating
1Jenny85.235
2Bob92.52
3Alice3.9
4James120.1

Example 1

SQL:

SELECT First_Name, ROUND(Rating, 1) Rating FROM Student_Rating

Result:

First_NameInt_Score
Jenny85.2
Bob92.5
Alice3.9
James120.1

Example 2

SQL:

SELECT First_Name, ROUND(Rating, -1) Rating FROM Student_Rating

Result:

First_NameInt_Score
Jenny90
Bob90
Alice0
James120

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