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Display zero if negative value. [message #538709]

Mon, 09 January 2012 02:17

kumarvk
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Registered: July 2004

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Hi Experts,

I am doing a Gross Profit percentage. I want to display zero if the GP% is have negative value.

for example

If GP% shows -75 I want to display as 0.

trunc((sum(total)-(sum(DECODE(po_pur,'',0,PO_PUR))+sum(DECODE(pl_pur,'',0,PL_PUR))+SUM(parts))) / SUM(DECODE(TOTAL,0,1,TOTAL))*100,2) "GP%"

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Re: Display zero if negative value. [message #538710 is a reply to message #538709]

Mon, 09 January 2012 02:19

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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Try CASE (I hope it existed in 8i ... if not, DECODE and SIGN functions will do that). Something like this:

select case when gp < 0 then 0 
            else gp
       end
from ...

select decode(sign(gp), -1, 0, gp)
from ...

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Re: Display zero if negative value. [message #538712 is a reply to message #538710]

Mon, 09 January 2012 02:22

Michel Cadot
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Another way:

greatest(gp,0)

Regards
Michel

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Re: Display zero if negative value. [message #684106 is a reply to message #538712]

Wed, 07 April 2021 04:49

Udays
Messages: 1
Registered: April 2021

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Genius way it will simply avoid double calculation of expression

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