SQLite format number with 2 decimal places always

Question

I have some tables in a SQLite database that contains FLOAT column type, now i want to retrieve the value with a Query and format the float field always with 2 decimal place

Answer 1

You can use printf as:

SELECT printf("%.2f", floatField) AS field FROM table;

for example:

sqlite> SELECT printf("%.2f", floatField) AS field FROM mytable;
3.56
2.40
4.78
3.00
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