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<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Impala Aggregate Functions</h1>
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Aggregate functions are a special category with different rules. These functions
calculate a return value across all the items in a result set, so they require a
<code class="ph codeph">FROM</code> clause in the query:
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<pre class="pre codeblock"><code>select count(product_id) from product_catalog;
select max(height), avg(height) from census_data where age &gt; 20;
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Aggregate functions also ignore <code class="ph codeph">NULL</code> values rather than returning a
<code class="ph codeph">NULL</code> result. For example, if some rows have <code class="ph codeph">NULL</code> for a
particular column, those rows are ignored when computing the <code class="ph codeph">AVG()</code> for
that column. Likewise, specifying <code class="ph codeph">COUNT(<var class="keyword varname">col_name</var>)</code> in
a query counts only those rows where <var class="keyword varname">col_name</var> contains a
non-<code class="ph codeph">NULL</code> value.
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_count.html">COUNT Function</a></strong><br />
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_group_concat.html">GROUP_CONCAT Function</a></strong><br />
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_max.html">MAX Function</a></strong><br />
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_min.html">MIN Function</a></strong><br />
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_ndv.html">NDV Function</a></strong><br />
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<li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../topics/impala_stddev.html">STDDEV, STDDEV_SAMP, STDDEV_POP Functions</a></strong><br />
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