SQL - AVG Function
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SQL AVG function is used to find out the average of a field in various records.
To understand AVG function, consider an employee_tbl table, which is having the following records −
SQL> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl; +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-04-06 | 100 | | 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-06-06 | 300 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 350 | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Now suppose based on the above table you want to calculate average of all the dialy_typing_pages, then you can do so by using the following command −
SQL> SELECT AVG(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl; +-------------------------+ | AVG(daily_typing_pages) | +-------------------------+ | 230.0000 | +-------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.03 sec)
You can take average of various records set using GROUP BY clause. Following example will take average all the records related to a single person and you will have average typed pages by every person.
SQL> SELECT name, AVG(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl GROUP BY name; +------+-------------------------+ | name | AVG(daily_typing_pages) | +------+-------------------------+ | Jack | 135.0000 | | Jill | 220.0000 | | John | 250.0000 | | Ram | 220.0000 | | Zara | 325.0000 | +------+-------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.20 sec)
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