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MySQL | CEILING method
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MySQL's CEILING(~) method returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to the provided input number.
Parameters
1. X | number
A number input.
Return value
The smallest integer greater than or equal to the provided input number.
Examples
Consider the following table about some students:
student_id | fname | lname | day_enrolled | age | username |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sky | Towner | 2015-12-03 | 17 | stowner1 |
2 | Ben | Davis | 2016-04-20 | 19 | bdavis2 |
3 | Travis | Apple | 2018-08-14 | 18 | tapple3 |
4 | Arthur | David | 2016-04-01 | 16 | adavid4 |
5 | Benjamin | Town | 2014-01-01 | 17 | btown5 |
The above sample table can be created using the code here.
Basic usage
To return the smallest integer greater than or equal to -13.5:
SELECT CEILING(-13.5);
+----------------+| CEILING(-13.5) |+----------------+| -13 |+----------------+
To return the smallest integer greater than or equal to the average age of students:
SELECT CEILING(AVG(age)), AVG(age) FROM students;
+-------------------+----------+| CEILING(AVG(age)) | AVG(age) |+-------------------+----------+| 18 | 17.4000 |+-------------------+----------+
18 is the smallest integer larger than 17.4 (the average age of students).
Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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Official MySQL Documentation
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mathematical-functions.html#function_ceiling
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