Questions tagged [percentile-cont]
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How can I include a PERCENTILE_CONT column within a select statement without generating an error about the ORDER BY clause or aggregate function?
I have a need to generate a particular report from some data and I am having a great deal of trouble figuring out the proper usage of PERCENTILE_CONT to provide the results I need. I would like to include a column in my query result which shows…

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Percentiles in MariaDB
I'm trying to find the 25th and 75th percentiles in MariaDB 10.4.11, according to https://mariadb.com/kb/en/percentile_cont/ I believe the below code is the correct way to do it, however it returns the same result for each calculation?
select name,…

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How to use percentile_conts with multiple quantiles in Postgres
I currently have a query that works like so:
select AVG(t2 - t1) as delay,
percentile_cont(0.25) within group (order by (t2 - t1)) as q25,
percentile_cont(0.5) within group (order by (t2 - t1)) as median,
percentile_cont(0.75)…

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percentile_cont with aggregate Function
I'm using SQL Server 2012 and trying to calculate some aggregate functions and percentiles on a data set with two columns (id and time). In my research I found some solutions, but they don't work for me (maybe it's because of my outdated SQL…

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Find median of dates in PostgreSQL
I was wondering if there is a way to find the 'median' date in PostgreSQL. The goal is to obtain, according to the median, the date that is in the middle of all the dates.
I tried following modified median function:
select
percentile_cont(0.5)…

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Calling T-SQL's "PERCENTIlE_CONT" directly from EntityFramework Core
This SO question describes how to call DatePart function using EntityFramework:
I wonder if I can provide a similar binding for PERCENTILE_CONT.
Or maybe the only way to use PERCENTILE_CONT via EntityFramework is to have a stored procedure and call…

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Multiple PARTITION BY ... OVER the same column in T-SQL
I found the following query in a book on T-SQL
SELECT
round(SUM(TotalDue),1) AS Sales,
LastName,
FirstName,
SalesPersonId,
AccountNumber,
PERCENTILE_CONT(0.4) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY round(SUM(TotalDue),1))
OVER(PARTITION BY AccountNumber) AS…

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How can I convert the Percentile_Disc in SQL to Spark Sql
At work we're moving from Teradata to Spark SQL (Hadoop Cluster), so I need to convert many of my scripts.
Here is my original SQL script, and I am trying to get the 60th percentile of the cust. satisfaction rating (i.e. top 40% of performers) for…

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Multiple Percentile_Cont() calls with different order by's in AWS Redshift
I am trying to call Percentile_Cont() within group (order by column_name) multiple times with each one having a different order by column_name
AWS Redshift has the following documentation forbidding this:
If a statement includes multiple calls to…

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How to use PERCENTILE_CONT in GROUP BY query?
I have a table named TabA with the following columns,
Id
Currency
Value
Institution
Expected Results:
Id Currency Cnt Median(Value) Institution
I am getting the values except Median(Value) using the below query,
SELECT Id, Currency,Count(*)…

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I want ntile(3) within ntile(3) as in subdivision within division by ntile()
I want to create a ntile(3) within an ntile(3).
I have the following table:
Customer
Total_amt
Digital_amt
1
100
45
2
200
150
3
150
23
4
300
100
5
350
350
6
112
10
7
312
15
8
260
160
9
232
150
10
190
132
I want to have…

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Calculating Percentile on large SQL tables
I have a large SQL table with 100+ million records in SQL Server as follows:
+-----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|CustomerID |TransDate |Category | Num_Trans |Sum_Trans…

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PostgreSQL want to round percentile_cont
I am computing a range of values in PostgreSQL, and I want to round some of them to 2 decimal places. when I do round the average it works round(avg(rate), 2) as avg_rate. when I round the median round(percentile_cont(0.5) within group (order by…

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How to calculate the number of rows (& their percentage) that fall below the 10th percentile of column in SQL?
I have a column with numbers. I already calculated the percentiles using percentile_cont. How can I sum up/count all the rows (& calculate their %) that fall below, e.g. the 25th percentile?

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calculate percentile and use case when in sql
I have a data set
Cashback table
user | order_amount
-------+------------
raj | 200
rahul | 400
sameer | 244
amit | 654
arif | 563
raj | 245
rahul | 453
amit | 534
arif | 634
raj | 245
amit | 235
rahul | 345
arif | 632
I…
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