Oracle-L: Re: Geometric mean

From: Daniel Hanks <hanksdc_at_about-inc.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:59:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6929.20031113095924@fatcity.com>

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Robson, Peter wrote:

>
> Has anyone any code (SQL, PL/SQL) that will permit the calculation of the
> geometric mean of 'n' values?
>
> appreciated...
>
> peter
> edinburgh
>
>
> ps - yes I know Perl will do it, but that is not the answer...

But possibly could be an answer using extproc_perl. But that may or may not be a satisfactory solution, depending on your needs.

I'd be curious (as one new to the list) if anyone else is using extproc_perl? It's been useful for us to provide a regex capability to queries on occasion. Also to allow querying of MySQL databases from Oracle.

Dan Hanks
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