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MEDIAN
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The MEDIAN() aggregate function calculates the median value of all input values. MEDIAN(x) is equivalent to standard SQL PERCENTILE_CONT(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY x), see PERCENTILE_CONT.
SELECT median(ID) FROM BOOK
create.select(median(BOOK.ID))
.from(BOOK)
Producing:
+--------+ | median | +--------+ | 2.5 | +--------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
median(BOOK.ID)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, Postgres, Teradata, YugabyteDB
percentile_cont(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY BOOK.ID)
BigQuery
percentile_cont(BOOK.ID, 0.5)
ClickHouse, DB2, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake, Sybase
median(BOOK.ID)
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, CockroachDB, Derby, Firebird, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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