SQL MAX () function
MAX () function
MAX () function returns the maximum value of the specified column.
SQL MAX () syntax
SELECT MAX(column_name) FROM table_name;
The demo database
In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.
The following is a selected "Websites" table data:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | id | name | url | alexa | country | +----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA | | 2 | 淘宝 | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN | | 3 | 本教程 | http://www.w3big.com/ | 4689 | CN | | 4 | 微博 | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN | | 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA | | 6 | 百度 | https://www.baidu.com/ | 4 | CN | | 7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND | +----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
SQL MAX () examples
The following SQL statement to obtain the maximum value from column "Websites" table "alexa":
Examples
SELECT MAX (alexa) AS max_alexa FROM Websites;
SQL implementation of the above results are as follows: