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Exporting SQL Server 2005 data to CSV: Decimal values inaccurate (such as 4.000000000001 rather than just 4)

I am trying to export a view from SQL Server 2005 to a CSV file.  One of the fields, PriceBreakControllingUnitPrice, is a float data type, which contains price information that is almost always 2 decimal places.  When I execute the view, SQL Server Management Studio is showing no more than 2 decimal places.  When this is exported to CSV, a value such as 8.65 becomes 8.6500000000000004 or 4.84 becomes 4.8399999999999999 .  How do I fix this?

I have made multiple attempts at different CAST and CONVERT functions, but it has no effect.

I run into this problem with Access databases on occasion, and rounding functions always take care of the issue, but not this time with SQL Server.

Below is the SELECT statement without any conversion added, but this info probably is not really needed for this question.

SELECT     SubQuery1.PriceBook, SubQuery1.CustomerID, dbo.FS_CustomerItem.CustomerItemNumber, dbo.FS_PriceBreak.PriceBreakControllingUnitPrice,
                      dbo.FS_PriceBreak.PriceBreakQuantityFrom, dbo.FS_PriceBreak.PriceBreakQuantityTo, dbo.FS_PriceBreak.PriceBreakPriceBasis
FROM         (SELECT     PriceBook, CASE WHEN [PriceBook] = 'XX 10' THEN '123456' END AS CustomerID, PriceBookItemNumber, ItemKey,
                                              PriceBookItemKey
                       FROM          dbo.FS_PriceBookItem
                       WHERE      (PriceBook IN ('XX 10'))) AS SubQuery1 INNER JOIN
                      dbo.FS_CustomerItem ON SubQuery1.CustomerID = dbo.FS_CustomerItem.CustomerID AND
                      SubQuery1.ItemKey = dbo.FS_CustomerItem.ItemKey INNER JOIN
                      dbo.FS_PriceBreak ON SubQuery1.PriceBookItemKey = dbo.FS_PriceBreak.PriceBookItemKey
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For cast and convert, I have tried to convert to decimal(20,2), decimal(12,2), decimal(12,4) - all of which have no effect.  I also tried casting as integer, multiplying by 1000, casting that result as decimal(12,4), and dividing by 1000 - still did not work.

I will try some other data formats.  Resulting file must be a CSV file.
using numeric rather than decimal appears to work in testing.  Now I will try to create the SSIS package and make sure all is still well.  Also used .txt format instead for the test, which should also be an OK substitute for CSV (I doubt it matters to SQL Server).
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I figured it out.  The problem is not what I thought - conversion was probably not the issue at all, but instead it was a bug (cough... feature) of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.  Maybe there is a reason why exporting to CSV or TXT gives two different results.  Since the database that needs this data will accept either TXT or CSV, this is OK for me.  

If someone else reading this has the same problem and requires CSV, then maybe the data can be first exported to TXT then renamed to CSV.