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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, 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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