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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, BIGQUERY, POSTGRES, TERADATA, YUGABYTEDB percentile_cont(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY BOOK.ID) -- DB2, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, ORACLE, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SYBASE median(BOOK.ID) -- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, FIREBIRD, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, -- TRINO, VERTICA /* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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