Geeting Divide by zero error while executin the select statement

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Hi,

I have a sql query and i keep on getting this error :

Msg 8134, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Divide by zero error encountered.

SQL

select ((sum(vews.TransactionCount) * 100) / (fa.new_unitspurchased)) as percentage from
BingMapsPlatform_Staging.dbo.VEWSDailyAggTrans vews
inner join BingMapsPlatform_MSCRM.dbo.FilteredAccount fa
on new_accountid = vews.primaryId
group by fa.new_unitspurchased

Please help me with this.

Posted 10-Dec-12 18:46pm

PRASHANT KUMAR LAL

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Pawan Sharma Software Engineer 11-Dec-12 0:58am

select IsNull(Case when IsNull(fa.new_unitspurchased,0)> 0 then ((sum(vews.TransactionCount) * 100) / (fa.new_unitspurchased)) Else 0 End ,0) as percentage from
BingMapsPlatform_Staging.dbo.VEWSDailyAggTrans vews
inner join BingMapsPlatform_MSCRM.dbo.FilteredAccount fa
on new_accountid = vews.primaryId
group by fa.new_unitspurchased

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Solution 2

select IsNull(Case when IsNull(fa.new_unitspurchased,0)> 0 then ((sum(vews.TransactionCount) * 100) / (fa.new_unitspurchased)) Else 0 End ,0) as percentage from BingMapsPlatform_Staging.dbo.VEWSDailyAggTrans vews inner join BingMapsPlatform_MSCRM.dbo.FilteredAccount fa on new_accountid = vews.primaryId group by fa.new_unitspurchased

Posted 10-Dec-12 18:59pm

Pawan Sharma Software Engineer

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PRASHANT KUMAR LAL 11-Dec-12 2:42am

I also wanted to have the percenatge symbol(%) in the end result. How to do that?

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Patel Shailendra · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10T18:51:00

Solution 1

select isnull(((sum(vews.TransactionCount) * 100) / isnull(fa.new_unitspurchased,0)),0) as percentage
from
BingMapsPlatform_Staging.dbo.VEWSDailyAggTrans vews
inner join BingMapsPlatform_MSCRM.dbo.FilteredAccount fa
on new_accountid = vews.primaryId
group by fa.new_unitspurchased

Posted 10-Dec-12 18:51pm

Patel Shailendra