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Subj:   Re: Rounding vs truncation
 
From:   Sanjaya Nagabhushan

Rachel,

DBSControl "General Fields" group has this field - RoundHalfwayMagUp. By default this is FALSE, Set this to TRUE & it will do the rounding as per your requirement. Note that this change requires a Teradata restart.


Regards,

Sanjaya


  20. RoundHalfwayMagUp - This field indicates how rounding should be performed when computing values of DECIMAL type. If this field is FALSE, the system uses the rounding semantics traditional for Teradata, namely, a value exactly halfway between representable decimal values is rounded up or down so that the least significant digit is even. If TRUE, the system uses rounding semantics appropriate for many business applications, namely, the magnititudes of halfway values are rounded up. Put differently, halfway values are rounded away from zero, so that positive halfway values are rounded up and negative halfway values are rounded down (toward negative infinity).  




     
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