ceiling-transact-sql.md

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CEILING (Transact-SQL)

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Returns the smallest integer greater than, or equal to, the specified numeric expression.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

-- Syntax for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Parallel Data Warehouse  
  
CEILING ( numeric_expression )  

Arguments

numeric_expression
Is an expression of the exact numeric or approximate numeric data type category, except for the bit data type.

Return types

Returns the same type as numeric_expression.

Examples

The following example shows positive numeric, negative, and zero values with the CEILING function.

SELECT CEILING($123.45), CEILING($-123.45), CEILING($0.0);  
GO  

[!INCLUDEssResult]

--------- --------- -------------------------   
124.00    -123.00    0.00                       
  
(1 row(s) affected)  

[!INCLUDEssSDWfull] and [!INCLUDEssPDW]

The following example shows use of positive numeric, negative, and zero values with the CEILING function.

SELECT CEILING(123.45), CEILING(-123.45), CEILING(0.0);  

[!INCLUDEssResult]

------- --------- --------

124.00 -123.00 0.00

See also

System Functions (Transact-SQL)