Or if your question was relating to the COLUMN ... FORMAT SQL*Plus command, 99 works for me (again my decimal separator is "," because of local settings) using SQL*Plus 8.1.7
SQL> column price format 90D99
SQL> select 20 as price from dual
2 union all
3 select 20 / 3 as price from dual
4 union all
5 select 20 / 8 as price from dual
6 union all
7 select 20 / 16 as price from dual
8 union all
9 select 20 / 32 as price from dual ;
PRICE
------
20,00
6,67
2,50
1,25
0,63
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> I know this must be extremely simple, but the only thing I
> can find for this is column format and that doesn't work, so
> could someone tell me how to force an amount field to show 2
> decimal positions? I have tried format 999.99 and 990.00 but
> it will not print the zero if it is after the decimal ( i.e.
> 100.5 or 88 ). I know I have done this before but I guess
> I have gone brain dead.
>
