Rt Ibmer wrote:

Hi - I have an int column with several million rows of data. What is the fastest way to write a query to get the median value of the column? Apparently there is no median() function in SQL. A web search revealed lots of various talk about using stored procedures and fancy functions. None of this looked like it would be very efficient. I searched these archives but didn't see a single mention of median. Thank you!

True, the complexity of the median() in essence requires a partial sort of the complete list. It is a member of a group of statistical functions. A feature request has been added to the list.

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