Automatically Round off numbers to the nearest digit

I was solving a requirement where data entered into a table contained decimals. However the user had a requirement of automatically rounding off the decimals to the nearest digit before inserting into the table. The SQL statements could not be changed to make use of the Round() function. So one of the ways of solving this was to use the numeric datatype in the table definition as shown below:

DECLARE @TmpTable TABLE
(
id int,
amount numeric(7,0)
)

INSERT INTO @TmpTable VALUES  (1, 5.556233)
INSERT INTO @TmpTable VALUES  (1, 2.123953)
INSERT INTO @TmpTable VALUES  (1, 3.753433)

SELECT  * FROM  @TmpTable

OUTPUT

As you can see, data stored into the table automatically gets rounded off.

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