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laddu
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
332 Posts |
 Posted - 2011-06-06 : 11:03:07
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| Hi,I am trying to pull avg for TotalMessages, Totalread and Totalunread. Using below script I am not getting decimals.Can some one help me to get accurate avg with decimals. Thank you.Select @accountID as AccountID, AVG(Totalmessages), ROUND(SUM(ISNULL(TotalMessages,0)) / COUNT(*),3) as TotalAvgMessagesPerPatient, ROUND(SUM(ISNULL(TotalUnread,0)) / COUNT(*),3) as TotalAvgUnreadMessagesPerPatient, ROUND(SUM(ISNULL(TotalRead,0)) / COUNT(*),3) as TotalAvgReadMessagesPerPatientfrom #temp_patients |
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sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-06-06 : 12:38:54
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In most cases AVG function returns the same data type as that of the column being averaged (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177677.aspx). So you may need to cast the values to the desired result type and then average, for example:.....AVG(cast(Totalmessages as decimal(19,4))),..... |
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