MySQL AVG() Function

 MySQL AVG function is used to find out the average of a field in various records.

To understand AVG function, consider an employee_tbl table, which is having following records −

mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl;

+------+------+------------+--------------------+

|  id  | name | work_date  | daily_typing_pages |

+------+------+------------+--------------------+

|   1  | John | 2007-01-24 |        250         |

|   2  | Ram  | 2007-05-27 |        220         |

|   3  | Jack | 2007-05-06 |        170         |

|   3  | Jack | 2007-04-06 |        100         |

|   4  | Jill | 2007-04-06 |        220         |

|   5  | Zara | 2007-06-06 |        300         |

|   5  | Zara | 2007-02-06 |        350         |

+------+------+------------+--------------------+

7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, suppose based on the above table you want to calculate average of all the dialy_typing_pages, then you can do so by using the following command −

mysql> SELECT AVG(daily_typing_pages)

   -> FROM employee_tbl;

+-------------------------+

| AVG(daily_typing_pages) |

+-------------------------+

|         230.0000        |

+-------------------------+

1 row in set (0.03 sec)

You can take average of various records set using GROUP BY clause. Following example will take average all the records related to a single person and you will have average typed pages by every person.

mysql> SELECT name, AVG(daily_typing_pages)

   -> FROM employee_tbl GROUP BY name;

+------+-------------------------+

| name | AVG(daily_typing_pages) |

+------+-------------------------+

| Jack |        135.0000         |

| Jill |        220.0000         |

| John |        250.0000         |

| Ram  |        220.0000         |

| Zara |        325.0000         |

+------+-------------------------+

5 rows in set (0.20 sec)