Comments on: How to avoid imprecise DECIMAL math in MySQL http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/03/08/decimal-math-in-mysql/ Stay curious! Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Jason http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/03/08/decimal-math-in-mysql/#comment-10150 Jason Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:26:10 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/03/08/decimal-math-in-mysql/#comment-10150 Thanks for all that info, it was good to find out why the problem is happening rather than just that it cant work... I seem to have worked out the issue I was having with float types with the following statement - hope it helps anyone else. Cheers: SELECT ID, Round(Sum(Total),2) As calcTotal FROM table GROUP BY ID HAVING Round(Sum(Total),2) > 0 ORDER by calcTotal DESC Thanks for all that info, it was good to find out why the problem is happening rather than just that it cant work…
I seem to have worked out the issue I was having with float types with the following statement - hope it helps anyone else. Cheers:

SELECT ID, Round(Sum(Total),2) As calcTotal FROM table
GROUP BY ID
HAVING Round(Sum(Total),2) > 0
ORDER by calcTotal DESC

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