11/29/2018 How to find (calculate) median using oracle sql query

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A median is a value separating the higher half of sample from the lower half. The median can be
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median is defined as the mean of the two middle values.
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Now let see how to calculate the median in oracle with the employees table as example. String Functions in Hive

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empid, deptid, salary
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The below query is used to calculate the median of employee salaries across the entire table. Grep Command in Unix and Linux Examples

select empid,
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dept_id,
salary,
percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by salary desc)
over () median
from employees;

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The output of the above query is Add to circles

empid, deptid, salary, median

-----------------------------
1, 100, 5000, 5000
2, 100, 3000, 5000
3, 100, 4000, 5000
5, 200, 6000, 5000
6, 200, 8000, 5000

Now we will write a query to find the median of employee salaries in each department.

select empid,
dept_id,
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salary,
percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by salary desc)
over (partition by department_id) median
from employees;

The output of the above query is

empid, deptid, salary, median

------------------------------
1, 100, 5000, 4000
2, 100, 3000, 4000
3, 100, 4000, 4000
5, 200, 6000, 7000
6, 200, 8000, 7000

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