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, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
ceiling(1.7E0)

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, 
-- ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
ceil(1.7E0)

-- COCKROACHDB
ceil(CAST(1.7E0 AS double precision))

-- H2
ceiling(CAST(1.7E0 AS double))

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.18, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Numeric functions : CEIL

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