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Re: Calculating percentiles for each data record
Posted by: Tim Henderson
Date: June 05, 2008 12:03PM

This is a great query for percentiles. I would just add that you have to watch out for nulls in the val field, they'll make your top percentile too low -- since they'll fail the test for "<=" even for the highest value. This is not a flaw, you shouldn't have null values in such a set anyway

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