我写了一个函数来处理我的存储过程:

print 'Creating safeDivide Stored Proc ...'
go

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where  name = 'safeDivide') drop function safeDivide;
go

create function dbo.safeDivide( @Numerator decimal(38,19), @divisor decimal(39,19))
   returns decimal(38,19)
begin
 -- **************************************************************************
 --  Procedure: safeDivide()
 --     Author: Ron Savage, Central, ex: 1282
 --       Date: 06/22/2004
 --
 --  Description:
 --  This function divides the first argument by the second argument after
 --  checking for NULL or 0 divisors to avoid "divide by zero" errors.
 -- Change History:
 --
 -- Date        Init. Description
 -- 05/14/2009  RS    Updated to handle really freaking big numbers, just in
 --                   case. :-)
 -- 05/14/2009  RS    Updated to handle negative divisors.
 -- **************************************************************************
   declare @p_product    decimal(38,19);

   select @p_product = null;

   if ( @divisor is not null and @divisor <> 0 and @Numerator is not null )
      select @p_product = @Numerator / @divisor;

   return(@p_product)
end
go

在这种情况下，你可以除以0。商业规则是计算库存周转，你用一段时间内的销售成本，按年计算。在你得到年化数字之后，你要除以该时期的平均库存。

I'm looking at calculating the number of inventory turns that occur in a three month period. I have calculated that I have Cost of Goods sold during the three month period of $1,000. The annual rate of sales is $4,000 ($1,000/3)*12. The beginning inventory is 0. The ending inventory is 0. My average inventory is now 0. I have sales of $4000 per year, and no inventory. This yields an infinite number of turns. This means that all my inventory is being converted and purchased by customers.

这是关于如何计算库存周转的业务规则。

我写了一个函数来处理我的存储过程:

print 'Creating safeDivide Stored Proc ...'
go

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where  name = 'safeDivide') drop function safeDivide;
go

create function dbo.safeDivide( @Numerator decimal(38,19), @divisor decimal(39,19))
   returns decimal(38,19)
begin
 -- **************************************************************************
 --  Procedure: safeDivide()
 --     Author: Ron Savage, Central, ex: 1282
 --       Date: 06/22/2004
 --
 --  Description:
 --  This function divides the first argument by the second argument after
 --  checking for NULL or 0 divisors to avoid "divide by zero" errors.
 -- Change History:
 --
 -- Date        Init. Description
 -- 05/14/2009  RS    Updated to handle really freaking big numbers, just in
 --                   case. :-)
 -- 05/14/2009  RS    Updated to handle negative divisors.
 -- **************************************************************************
   declare @p_product    decimal(38,19);

   select @p_product = null;

   if ( @divisor is not null and @divisor <> 0 and @Numerator is not null )
      select @p_product = @Numerator / @divisor;

   return(@p_product)
end
go

当错误传播回调用程序时，可以适当地处理它(如果需要，可以忽略它)。在c#中，SQL中发生的任何错误都会抛出一个异常，我可以捕获并在我的代码中处理，就像任何其他错误一样。

I agree with Beska in that you do not want to hide the error. You may not be dealing with a nuclear reactor but hiding errors in general is bad programming practice. This is one of the reasons most modern programming languages implement structured exception handling to decouple the actual return value with an error / status code. This is especially true when you are doing math. The biggest problem is that you cannot distinguish between a correctly computed 0 being returned or a 0 as the result of an error. Instead any value returned is the computed value and if anything goes wrong an exception is thrown. This will of course differ depending on how you are accessing the database and what language you are using but you should always be able to get an error message that you can deal with.

try
{
    Database.ComputePercentage();
}
catch (SqlException e)
{
    // now you can handle the exception or at least log that the exception was thrown if you choose not to handle it
    // Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Divide by zero error encountered.
}

用零代替“除零”是有争议的，但这也不是唯一的选择。在某些情况下，用1代替是(合理的)合适的。我经常发现自己吸毒

 ISNULL(Numerator/NULLIF(Divisor,0),1)

当我在看分数/计数的变化，并希望默认为1，如果我没有数据。例如

NewScore = OldScore *  ISNULL(NewSampleScore/NULLIF(OldSampleScore,0),1) 

通常情况下，我实际上在其他地方计算过这个比率(尤其是因为它可以为低分母提供一些非常大的调整因素)。在这种情况下，我通常控制OldSampleScore大于阈值;这就排除了零的可能性。但有时“hack”是合适的。

有时，0可能不合适，但有时1也不合适。有时，从0到100,000,000的跳跃被描述为1%或100%的变化也可能是误导性的。在这种情况下，100,000,000 %可能是合适的。这取决于你打算根据百分比或比率得出什么样的结论。

例如，一个非常小的销售项目从2-4个销量变化，而一个非常大的销售项目从1,000,000个销量变化到2,000,000个销量变化，对分析师或管理层来说可能意味着非常不同的东西，但都是100%或1个变化。

隔离NULL值可能比在一堆混合了合法数据的0%或100%行中搜索要容易得多。通常，分母中的0可能表示错误或缺少值，您可能不想只是为了使数据集看起来整洁而填充任意值。

CASE
     WHEN [Denominator] = 0
     THEN NULL --or any value or sub case
     ELSE [Numerator]/[Denominator]
END as DivisionProblem