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:

-- CUBRID, HSQLDB, ORACLE, SYBASE
median(BOOK.ID)

-- POSTGRES
percentile_cont(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY BOOK.ID)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, IGNITE, 
-- INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, TERADATA, VERTICA
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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

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