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Development Tools Database Foundations SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions Grouping, Joining and Cleaning Up

Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points
Posted by Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points

Where does the word 'average' come from?

At around 5 minutes in this tutorial Andrew adds this to the query:

average > 3

This query brings back an error for me, and I wasn't surprised because it doesn't seem to relate to anything else in the query and it's not a keyword. I replaced it with this and it worked fine:

AVG(score) > 3

Anyone know where this 'average' word comes from and why should it work?

Thanks.

Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points
Leigh Maher
Leigh Maher
21,830 Points

Ah, sorry, please ignore my question. My mistake was that I had named the alias as average_score and not average, as Andrew had done. So, I see what it relates to now.