I wrote this to calculate the median on a record set. All you need to pass is the table name and column name. If you would like to filter the record set, create a view that displays the correct record.
The limitation of not being able to pass arrays to Stored procedure or functions was the primary reason for creating it in this way.
ALTER Procedure MEDIAN @table varchar(255), @field varchar(255)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @medvarcnt int
CREATE TABLE #medianlist2 (rid int IDENTITY(1,1), medianval int)
DECLARE @SQLSTR Nvarchar(800)
SET @SQLSTR =('INSERT #medianlist2 select ' + @field + ' AS medianval from ' + @table + ' order by ' + @field + ' desc')
SET @SQLSTR = CAST (@SQLSTR AS NVARCHAR(800))
EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQLSTR
SET @medvarcnt = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #medianlist2)
if @medvarcnt % 2 = 0
BEGIN
SELECT sum(medianval)/2 AS MEDIAN FROM #medianlist2 where rid >=(@medvarcnt/2) and rid <=(@medvarcnt/2)+1
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT medianval AS MEDIAN FROM #medianlist2 where rid =(@medvarcnt/2)+1
END
drop TABLE #medianlist2
END
EXEC MEDIAN @table = 'master.dbo.sysdevices',@field = '[size]' 
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