T-SQL Rounding to 0.0, 0.5, or 1.0

Question

I have an interesting issue where I need to round the result of an AVG() function in a specific manner for use in the ORDER BY clause.

These are for use in recipe ratings.

Examples of the rounding formula:

1.2 -> 1
1.4 -> 1
1.5 -> 1.5
1.6 -> 2
1.9 - >2

I am querying for a list of recipes, and they needed to be ordered so that a recipe with one 5-star rating is not ordered a above a recipe with 100 ratings that average 4.9. The second part of the order by clause is the count of ratings.

If this requires a user defined function, I'm not quite sure how to go about doing it.

Answer 1

ORDER BY
    CASE WHEN (Num % 1) = .5
        THEN Num
        ELSE ROUND(Num,0)
    END

Answer 2

If I understood correctly, you have stars and half-stars? I'd suggest ORDER BY ROUND(value*2, 0)/2 , this way it rounds to closest 0.5 (half-star) step.