>>>>You can see my solution in the thread I mentioned to Tore - I also first need to convert to decimal and make a pick on the precision. I chose 11 digits as using higher precision changes the original number (as it was float 0.99 it will become 0.98000089, something like that).
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>>>Find the number of decimal of a float is a waste of time,
>>>because a solution does not exist.
>>>Some floats have an infinite number of decimal places,
>>>so we must first convert them into decimals.
>>>At this point the problem becomes to find the number of decimal places of a decimal ...
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>>I agree. So, how do you find a number of decimal places of a decimal?
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>1. you design the db then you known
>2. COLUMNPROPERTY(..,'SCALE')
>3.
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>-- this work with 1 or more decimals
>select	CHARINDEX('.',REVERSE(NULLIF(CAST(Value % 1 as varchar(40)))))-1
>-- with 0 decimals, CASE WHEN Value % 1=0 THEN 0 ...
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Thanks, this is very close to my solution.