RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

Or if your question was relating to the COLUMN ... FORMAT SQL*Plus command, 99 works for me (again my decimal separator is "," because of local settings) using SQL*Plus 8.1.7

SQL> column price format 90D99
SQL> select 20 as price from dual
  2 union all
  3 select 20 / 3 as price from dual
  4 union all
  5 select 20 / 8 as price from dual
  6 union all
  7 select 20 / 16 as price from dual
  8 union all
  9 select 20 / 32 as price from dual ;

 PRICE

 20,00
  6,67
  2,50
  1,25
  0,63
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:BurtonL_at_prismplus.com]
>
> I know this must be extremely simple, but the only thing I
> can find for this is column format and that doesn't work, so
> could someone tell me how to force an amount field to show 2
> decimal positions? I have tried format 999.99 and 990.00 but
> it will not print the zero if it is after the decimal ( i.e.
> 100.5 or 88 ). I know I have done this before but I guess
> I have gone brain dead.
>

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