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SQL function for Average Quantity per Transaction
I'm trying to find the average number of items per transaction, but I'm getting strange results.
If I count the transaction number field for sales orders using summary type, I get 559. Using sum for the quantity, it returns 1564. Using these two values, we should be getting an average items per transaction of 2.8. But when we use the formula ‘SUM({quantity})/COUNT({number})’, I get “1”. What’s more, then I use the COUNT({number}) in a formula field on its own, I thought I should be getting 559, as in the number of unique transactions, however, I’m getting 1564 because each line has a quantity of 1 – it’s just counting the number of lines, not the unique
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