Chapter 23. Statistics in SQL
SQL IS NOT A statistical programming language. However, there are some tricks that will let you do simple descriptive statistics. Many vendors also include other descriptive statistics in addition to the required ones. Other sections of this book give portable queries for computing some of the more common statistics. Before using any of these queries, you should check to see if they already exist in your SQL product. Built-in functions will run far faster than these queries, so you should use them if portability is not vital. The most common extensions are the median, the mode, the standard deviation, and the variance.
If you need to do a detailed statistical analysis, then you can extract data with SQL and pass ...
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