Divide By Zero Error Sql Server 2005

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sql-server-2008 share|improve this question edited Jan 6 at 19:50 Hooper 4241525 asked May 14 '09 at 6:06 Henrik Staun Poulsen 4,89331220 4 Perhaps some data validation is in order. –Anthony May 14 '09 at 19:17 add a comment| 15 Answers 15 active oldest votes up vote 350 down vote accepted In order to avoid a "Division by zero" error we have programmed it like this: Select Case when divisor=0 then null Else dividend / divisor End ,,, But here is a much nicer way of doing it: Select dividend / nullif(divisor, 0) ... Now the only problem is to remember the NullIf bit, if I use the "/" key. share|improve this answer edited Dec 20 '12 at 1:04 Community♦ 11 answered May 14 '09 at 6:10 Henrik Staun Poulsen 4,89331220 that's the way I would have solved it. –J. Polfer May 14 '09 at 19:21 4 A much nicer Way of doing it "Select dividend / nullif(divisor, 0) ..." breaks if divisor is NULL. –Anderson Dec 1 '14 at 10:51 add a comment| up vote 87 down vote In case you want to return zero, in case a zero devision would happen, you can use: SELECT COALESCE(dividend / NULLIF(divisor,0), 0) FROM sometable For every divisor that is zero, you will get a zero in the result set. share|improve this answer edited Jan 15 '13 at 19:41 Peter Mortensen 10.2k1369107 an

To Prevent Divide-By-Zero Errors In SQL By Ben Nadel on October 3, 2007 Tags: SQL Boyan Kostadinov just sent me a cool link to an article that is the final

Msg 8134 Level 16 State 1 Line 1 Divide By Zero Error Encountered

part in a four part series that discusses the SQL NULL value. I haven't sql nullif read the first three parts yet, but there is a really cool tip in the fourth part on using NULLIF() divide by zero error encountered in stored procedure to prevent divide-by-zero errors in a SQL call.The idea here is that, as with any other form of math that I know of, you cannot divide by zero in a SQL call. Therefore, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/861778/how-to-avoid-the-divide-by-zero-error-in-sql running this code:SELECT( 45 / 0 ) AS value;... results in a SQL error being thrown:Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia] [SQLServer JDBC Driver] [SQLServer] Divide by zero error encountered.To prevent this sort of error from being thrown, author Hugo Kornelis suggests using a NULLIF() in the divisor of the equation. NULLIF() takes two arguments and returns NULL if https://www.bennadel.com/blog/984-using-nullif-to-prevent-divide-by-zero-errors-in-sql.htm the two values are the same and can be used to turn the divisor from a zero into a NULL which, in turn, will force the entire equation to become NULL. Therefore, running this code:SELECT( 45 / NULLIF( 0, 0 ) ) AS value;[ #qDivision.value# ]... we get the following output:[ ]Here, the NULLIF( 0, 0 ) returns NULL since zero is equal to zero, which gets the SQL statement to return NULL, which gets ColdFusion to show an empty string. This is a seemingly pointless example since both zero values are hard coded, but imagine if this were a user-entered value, or even better yet, a SQL aggregate or other calculated value (such as might be used in a report or data mining exercise).Now, let's say you want to take this one step further and provide a default value for the equation if NULL is encountered (A default value, though not entirely accurate might make your consuming code more compact as it won't have to deal with exception cases). To set a default value, we could use the ISNULL() or COALESCE() functions: