MySQL - MIN Function
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MySQL MIN function is used to find out the record with minimum value among a record set.
To understand MIN function, consider an employee_tbl table, which is having the following records −
mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl; +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-04-06 | 100 | | 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-06-06 | 300 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 350 | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Now, suppose based on the above table you want to fetch minimum value of daily_typing_pages, then you can do so simply using the following command −
mysql> SELECT MIN(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl; +-------------------------+ | MIN(daily_typing_pages) | +-------------------------+ | 100 | +-------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
You can find all the records with minimum value for each name using GROUP BY clause as follows −
mysql>SELECT id, name, MIN(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl GROUP BY name; +------+------+-------------------------+ | id | name | MIN(daily_typing_pages) | +------+------+-------------------------+ | 3 | Jack | 100 | | 4 | Jill | 220 | | 1 | John | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 220 | | 5 | Zara | 300 | +------+------+-------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
You can use MIN Function along with MAX function to find out minimum value as well. Try out the following example −
mysql> SELECT MIN(daily_typing_pages) least, MAX(daily_typing_pages) max -> FROM employee_tbl; +-------+------+ | least | max | +-------+------+ | 100 | 350 | +-------+------+ 1 row in set (0.01 sec)
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