sql select stmt formula not working

Remember SQL defaults to integer division when dealing with int values, so if you depend on any of the equation to evaluate to a decimal it is probably not producing the results you want as it is rounding to integer result.

Not the abs() is not part of Excel formula.  The + is not a absolute value, but I will leave in case you do want that.

Try this:

case when l.apr = 0 then 0 
else abs((l.draccr * 1.0)/((l.apr * 1.0)/365.0 * (365.0/12))) 
end as AAVGBALA

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Same results,

in Excel i m getting 4113.00
in sql 18.39

What are the numbers you are dealing with.  Check order of operations as that is a huge swing in results.

can you please be more specific? which numbers and order of operation

What are the values of ?
B4 = l.draccr = ??
B3 = l.apr = ??

If you were doing the math manually, what would you do:
e.g. l.apr/365 then muliply result by 365/12 then divide l.draccr by that result

How do you know that the Excel value is accurate basically -- how would you double check value?

Please provide that numbers you plug into those two columns/fields in Excel and I will take a look.

in this instance i am just testing on one member

B4 = l.draccr = 23.65
B3 = l.apr = 6.90 %

dqmq, i have attached the excel sheet with the formula, please see
Copy-of-Ave-balance-formula.xls

Ok, so you are just doing B4/(B3/12)

The SQL equivalent is the following:

l.draccr = 23.65
l.apr = 0.069

SELECT CASE l.apr WHEN 0 THEN 0 ELSE l.draccr/(l.apr/12) END AS AAVGBALA

Try this:

case when l.apr = 0 then 0 else
abs(l.draccr/(l.apr/1200)) end as AAVGBALA,

Make sure those fields are setup as an appropriate data type like MONEY.

DECLARE @draccr MONEY, @apr MONEY
 
SET @draccr = 23.65
SET @apr = 0.069
 
SELECT CASE @apr WHEN 0 THEN 0 ELSE @draccr/(@apr/12) END AS AAVGBALA

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DGMG's suggestion will work if you have your data stored as 6.9 instead of 0.069, but still not sure how you were getting 18.39 before as having 6.9 instead just lowers the number to 41.13 instead of 4,113.

Anyway, hopefully this is helping.

not working
this one gives me same results 18.39
SELECT CASE l.apr WHEN 0 THEN 0 ELSE l.draccr/(l.apr/12) END AS AAVGBALA


case when l.apr = 0 then 0 else
abs(l.draccr/(l.apr/1200)) end as AAVGBALA,

result: 1855.26


when i run following indpendently, i get 4,113
DECLARE @draccr MONEY, @apr MONEY
 
SET @draccr = 23.65
SET @apr = 0.069
SELECT CASE @apr WHEN 0 THEN 0 ELSE @draccr/(@apr/12) END AS AAVGBALA


 

darn me, you guys are right...data was wrong....sorry for the trouble...its all good now...