MEDIAN

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The MEDIAN() aggregate function calculates the median value of all input values.

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, YUGABYTE
percentile_cont(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY BOOK.ID)

-- DB2, EXASOL, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, ORACLE, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SYBASE
median(BOOK.ID)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, FIREBIRD, IGNITE, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, 
-- SQLSERVER, VERTICA
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.16, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Aggregate functions : MEDIAN

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