Available in versions: Dev (3.20) | Latest (3.19) | 3.18 | 3.17 | 3.16 | 3.15 | 3.14 | 3.13 | 3.12 | 3.11 | 3.10

CEIL

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The CEIL() function rounds a numeric value to its nearest higher integer.

SELECT
  ceil(1.7),
  ceil(-1.7);

create.select(
  ceil(1.7),
  ceil(-1.7)).fetch();

The result being

+-------+-------+
| floor | floor |
+-------+-------+
|     2 |    -1 |
+-------+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

ceil(1.7)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

(CLNG(1.7E0) - (1.7E0 - clng(1.7E0) > 0))

ceiling(1.7E0)

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS decimal))

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS double precision))

ceil(1.7E0)

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS double))

ceiling(CAST(1.7E0 AS double))

ceiling(CAST(1.7E0 AS float))

Generated with jOOQ 3.20. Translate your own SQL on our website

Do you have any feedback about this page? We'd love to hear it!