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meetsrk

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:50 pm
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hi ppl,

when we are using average function in a query for a table where some of the salary are null then wat will be the output of the following query,

Code:

select avg(salary) from emp


say emp has 10 records out of which 3 records are having NULL value.

so will it calculate the sum of the all the salaries irrespective of NULL(taking nulls as zero) and divides by 10.

or

will it calculate the sum of all the salaries which does not have NULL and divide it by 7
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imvs

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:28 pm
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check the second question of this post
http://ibmmainframes.com/expertforum/viewtopic.php?t=785
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