CEILING (Transact-SQL)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

This function returns the smallest integer greater than, or equal to, the specified numeric expression.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

CEILING ( numeric_expression )  

Arguments

numeric_expression
An expression of the exact numeric or approximate numeric data type category. For this function, the bit data type is invalid.

Return types

Return values have the same type as numeric_expression.

Examples

This example shows positive numeric, negative numeric, and zero value inputs for the CEILING function.

SELECT CEILING($123.45), CEILING($-123.45), CEILING($0.0);  
GO  

Here is the result set.

--------- --------- -------------------------   
124.00    -123.00    0.00                       
  
(1 row(s) affected)  

See also

System Functions (Transact-SQL)