Syntax
STDDEV(expr)
Purpose
STDDEV() returns the population standard deviation of the expr expression. If no matching row is found, it returns NULL.
It is an alias for STDDEV_POP().
Examples
obclient> CREATE TABLE employees (manager_id INT,last_name varchar(50),hiredate varchar(50),SALARY INT);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Raphaely', '2017-07-01', 1700);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'De Haan', '2018-05-01',11000);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Errazuriz', '2017-07-21', 1400);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Hartstein', '2019-05-01',14000);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Raphaely', '2017-07-22', 1700);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Weiss', '2019-07-11',13500);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Russell', '2019-10-05', 13000);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(100, 'Partners', '2018-12-01',14000);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(200, 'Ross', '2019-06-11',13500);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(200, 'Bell', '2019-05-25', 13000);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES(200, 'Part', '2018-08-11',14000);
COMMIT;
obclient> SELECT STDDEV(salary) FROM employees;
+-------------------+
| STDDEV(salary) |
+-------------------+
| 5249.950806538513 |
+-------------------+
1 row in set