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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:

Access

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

ASE

ceiling(1.7E0)

Aurora MySQL

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS decimal))

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Firebird, Postgres, YugabyteDB

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS double precision))

BigQuery, ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica

ceil(1.7E0)

DB2

ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS double))

H2

ceiling(CAST(1.7E0 AS double))

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

ceiling(CAST(1.7E0 AS float))
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