STD() function in MySQL

With the help of STD() function we can calculate population Standard deviation of an expression in MySQL. But, if there are no matching rows in the given expression it returns Null.

Syntax :

STD(expr);

Parameter : This method accepts only one parameter.

• expr : Input expression from which we want to calculate population standard deviation.

Returns : It returns the population standard deviation.

Example-1 :
Finding population standard deviation of RunScored column from the given Player table using STD Function.

Creating a Player table :

CREATE TABLE Player  
(
PlayerId INT AUTO_INCREMENT,  
PlayerName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
RunScored INT NOT NULL,
WicketsTaken INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(PlayerId)
);

Inserting data into the Table :
To verify used the following command as follows.

SELECT  * from Player ;

Output :

Now we are going to find population standard deviation for RunScored column.

SELECT  STD(RunScored ) as Pop_Standard_Deviation 
FROM Player ;

Output :

Example-2 :
Now we are going to find population standard deviation of WicketsTaken column.

SELECT  STD(WicketsTaken) as Pop_Std_Dev_Wickets   
FROM Player ;

Output :

Example-3 :
In this example we are going to find the population standard deviation of Income of Employee who are working in the location ‘Kolkata’ To demonstrate create a table named EmloyeeDetails.

CREATE TABLE EmployeeDetails(

Employee_Id INT AUTO_INCREMENT,  
Employee_Name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
Working_At VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
Work_Location  VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
Joining_Date DATE NOT NULL,
Annual_Income INT  NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(Employee_Id )
);

Inserting data into the Table :

INSERT INTO  
EmployeeDetails(Employee_Name, Working_At, Work_Location, Joining_Date, Annual_Income )

VALUES
('Amit Khan', 'XYZ Digital', 'Kolkata', '2019-10-06', 350000 ),
('Shreetama Pal', 'ABC Corp.', 'Kolkata', '2018-12-16', 500000 ),
('Aniket Sharma', 'PQR Soln.', 'Delhi', '2020-01-11', 300000 ),
('Maitree Jana', 'XYZ Digital', 'Kolkata', '2019-05-01', 400000 ),
('Priyanka Ojha', 'ABC Corp.', 'Delhi', '2019-02-13', 350000 ),
('Sayani Mitra', 'XYZ Digital', 'Kolkata', '2019-09-15', 320000 ),
('Nitin Dey', 'PQR Soln.', 'Delhi', '2019-10-06', 250000 ),
('Sujata Samanta', 'PQR Soln.', 'Kolkata', '2020-10-06', 350000 ),
('Sudip Majhi', 'ABC Corp.', 'Delhi', '2018-10-30', 600000 ),
('Sanjoy Kohli', 'XYZ Digital', 'Delhi', '2019-04-18', 450000 ) ;

To verify used the following command as follows.

Select * FROM EmployeeDetails;

Output :

Now we are going to find population standard deviation of annual Income for those Employee whose work location is ‘Kolkata’

SELECT  'Kolkata' AS 'Work_Location',
STD(Annual_Income) as PopStdDevOfAnnualIncome  
FROM EmployeeDetails where Work_Location = 'Kolkata';

Output :

jana_sayantan

Follow

Improve

Article Tags :

• SQL
• DBMS-SQL
• mysql