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description: 'Computes an approximate quantile of a numeric data sequence.'
sidebar_position: 172
slug: /sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/quantiledeterministic
title: 'quantileDeterministic'
---

# quantileDeterministic

Computes an approximate [quantile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile) of a numeric data sequence.

This function applies [reservoir sampling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling) with a reservoir size up to 8192 and deterministic algorithm of sampling. The result is deterministic. To get an exact quantile, use the [quantileExact](/sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/quantileexact#quantileexact) function.

When using multiple `quantile*` functions with different levels in a query, the internal states are not combined (that is, the query works less efficiently than it could). In this case, use the [quantiles](../../../sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/quantiles.md#quantiles) function.

**Syntax**

```sql
quantileDeterministic(level)(expr, determinator)
```

Alias: `medianDeterministic`.

**Arguments**

- `level` — Level of quantile. Optional parameter. Constant floating-point number from 0 to 1. We recommend using a `level` value in the range of `[0.01, 0.99]`. Default value: 0.5. At `level=0.5` the function calculates [median](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median).
- `expr` — Expression over the column values resulting in numeric [data types](/sql-reference/data-types), [Date](../../../sql-reference/data-types/date.md) or [DateTime](../../../sql-reference/data-types/datetime.md).
- `determinator` — Number whose hash is used instead of a random number generator in the reservoir sampling algorithm to make the result of sampling deterministic. As a determinator you can use any deterministic positive number, for example, a user id or an event id. If the same determinator value occurs too often, the function works incorrectly.

**Returned value**

- Approximate quantile of the specified level.

Type:

- [Float64](../../../sql-reference/data-types/float.md) for numeric data type input.
- [Date](../../../sql-reference/data-types/date.md) if input values have the `Date` type.
- [DateTime](../../../sql-reference/data-types/datetime.md) if input values have the `DateTime` type.

**Example**

Input table:

```text
┌─val─┐
│   1 │
│   1 │
│   2 │
│   3 │
└─────┘
```

Query:

```sql
SELECT quantileDeterministic(val, 1) FROM t
```

Result:

```text
┌─quantileDeterministic(val, 1)─┐
│                           1.5 │
└───────────────────────────────┘
```

**See Also**

- [median](/sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/median)
- [quantiles](../../../sql-reference/aggregate-functions/reference/quantiles.md#quantiles)
