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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, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
ceiling(1.7E0)

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, 
-- MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, 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 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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