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Here's a tricky SQL question that has definitely driven me to the end of
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COLUMN price format 9,999.99 HEADING 'Charged%'
SELECT pricecharged * .231 as price
FROM VT_examdetail

The output from this reads:

Charged%
---------
23.10
34.65
34.65
....


The kicker here is that I need to add a percent sign to the right of the
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Charged%
---------
23.10%
34.65%
34.65%
....

I thought I could do this by just adding "|| ('%')" into the SELECT
statement, but when I do this the decimal position defined in the COLUMN
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Thanks,
Alex

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