How can I calculate the median of values in SQLite?

Question

I\'d like to calculate the median value in a numeric row. How can I do that in SQLite 4?

Answer 1

There is a log table with timestamp, label, and latency. We want to see the latency median value of each label, grouped by timestamp. Format all latency value to 15 char length with leading zeroes, concatenate it, and cut half positioned value(s).. there is the median.

select L, --V, 
       case when C % 2 = 0 then
       ( substr( V, ( C - 1 ) * 15 + 1, 15) * 1 + substr( V, C * 15 + 1, 15) * 1 ) / 2
       else
        substr( V, C * 15 + 1, 15) * 1
       end as MEDST
from (
    select L, group_concat(ST, "") as V, count(ST) / 2 as C
    from (
        select label as L, 
               substr( timeStamp, 1, 8) * 1 as T, 
               printf( '%015d',latency) as ST
        from log
        where label not like '%-%' and responseMessage = 'OK'
        order by L, T, ST ) as XX
    group by L
    ) as YY