Subject | Re: [firebird-support] i want to this ; select avg(datefield) from ... but what? |
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Author | Svein Erling Tysvaer |
Post date | 2008-05-20T20:34:02Z |
Doing avg on a datefield may not work, but datefield-date should return
a number and number + date return a date, so that maybe something like
SELECT avg(datefield - cast('1.1.1980' as date)) +
cast('1.1.1980' as date)
from datetable
is what you want?
HTH,
Set
Anderson Farias wrote:
a number and number + date return a date, so that maybe something like
SELECT avg(datefield - cast('1.1.1980' as date)) +
cast('1.1.1980' as date)
from datetable
is what you want?
HTH,
Set
Anderson Farias wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> i want to this ; select avg(datefield) from ... but what?
>
> AVG is defined by the SUM of element values divided by the number of
> elements... so, how's that suposed to work on date fields?
>
> Tell exactly what [input -> result value] you wish and maybe someone comes
> up with a solution.
>
>
> Regards,
> Anderson Farias