On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:25:58AM -0700, Shantanu Oak wrote: > I am trying to find average price of the shares in the > portfolio table. > I thought something like this should work... > SELECT symbol, ((sum(buyrate*quantity))/quantity) as > average > from portfolio group by symbol; > > It does work, but wrong results. What is the correct > query?
Why not use the AVG() function? It does exactly what you want. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GROUP-BY-Functions.html Jim Winstead MySQL AB -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
