13>
14> CREATE TABLE project (project_no CHAR(4) NOT NULL,
15> project_name CHAR(15) NOT NULL,
16> budget FLOAT NULL)
17>
18> insert into project values ('p1', 'Search Engine', 120000.00)
19> insert into project values ('p2', 'Programming', 95000.00)
20> insert into project values ('p3', 'SQL', 186500.00)
21>
22>
23>
24> -- VAR computes the variance of all the values listed in a column or expression
25>
26> SELECT VAR(budget) variance_of_budgets FROM project
27>
28> drop table project
29> GO
(1 rows affected)
(1 rows affected)
(1 rows affected)
variance_of_budgets
------------------------
2236583333.3333321
(1 rows affected)
1>