PERCENTILE_CONT

Calculates a percentile over a partition, assuming a continuous distribution of values of defined. Results are interpolated, rather than matching any of the specific column values.

PERCENTILE_CONT is available as an aggregation function. See also PERCENTILE_DISC, which returns a percentile over a partition equal to a specific column value.

Syntax

PERCENTILE_CONT( <val> ) WITHIN GROUP ( ORDER BY <expr0> [ { ASC | DESC } ] ) [ OVER ( PARTITION BY <expr1> ) ]


Parameter	Description
`<val>`	A double/float literal between 0.0 and 1.0.
`<expr0>`	An expression used for the order by clause.
`<expr1>`	An expression used for the partition by clause.

The expression used for the order by clause must be of numeric data type. The return type of the function will be the same as the expression type.

Example

The example below calculates the max percentile value based on continuous distribution of students, partitioned by grade level.

SELECT
	first_name,
	PERCENTILE_CONT(1.0) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY test_score) OVER (PARTITION BY grade_level) AS percentile
FROM
	class_test;

Returns:

' +-------------+------------+
' | grade_level | percentile | 
' +-------------+------------+
' |       Frank |         90 |
' |       Peter |         90 |
' |        Iris |         90 |
' |    Humphrey |         90 |
' |        Jojo |         90 |
' |       Sammy |         90 |
' |      Albert |         89 |
' |     Deborah |         89 |
' |     Yolinda |         89 |
' |        Mary |         89 |
' |       Shawn |         89 |
' |        Otis |         94 |
' |       Larry |         94 |
' |       Carol |         94 |
' |       Wanda |         94 |
' |    Roseanna |         94 |
' |    Shangxiu |         94 |
' |      Franco |        100 |
' |     Charles |        100 |
' |   Brunhilda |        100 |
' |        Gary |        100 |
' |      Thomas |        100 |
' |       Jesse |        100 |
' +-------------+------------+