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Re: Calculating the percentile

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Anton Shepelev (anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com) writes:
> I am trying to solve a trivial problem, and my solution
> turns out unexpectedly cumbersome and likeky suboptimal.
> Given a table storing values (val) over dimension (dim), I
> want to query the total, mean and median of the value over
> the dimension.  My solution is:
> 
>   SELECT
>      dim         ,
>      SUM(val) tot,
>      AVG(val) avg,
>      med
>   FROM
>   (  SELECT
>         dim,
>         val,
>         PERCENTILE_CONT( 0.5 )
>         WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY val)
>         OVER (PARTITION BY dim) AS med
>      FROM #test
>   ) w_med
>   GROUP BY dim, med
> 

If you are on SQL 2022, you can use the new function
APPROXIMATIVE_PERCENTILE_CONT which is a regular aggregate function.
But as the name says, it is approximative. It's intended for large
data sets where exact calculation would take a lot of time. I don't
know how well it works on smaller data sets.

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