RE: Percentile calculations

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Nelson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:17 AM To: Karl Dyson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Percentile calculations Hi. On Fri 2003-01-31 at 17:22:37 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] select count(*) from percentile where criteria; Work out 95

Re: Percentile calculations

2003-02-01 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2003-01-31 at 17:22:37 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] select count(*) from percentile where criteria; Work out 95% or this value. create temporary table percentile (id int unsigned auto_increment primary key, scantime decimal(20,10)); insert into percentile (scantime)

Percentile calculations

2003-01-31 Thread Karl Dyson
I've had a look through the archives and cannot see a solution to this. I am wondering if there is a nicer way to do the following. I have a table where one of the columns contains a time period for an activity that I am logging. I need to grab the 95th percentile, when ordered by duration. I