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Mysql Minimum Query
Posted on: January 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Mysql Minimum Query is useful when you want to return the minimum value record from table.

Mysql Minimum Query

Mysql Minimum Query is useful when you want to return the minimum value record from table.

Understand with Example

The Tutorial makes you understand an example from 'Mysql Minimum Query'. To elaborate more on it, we simply create a table 'employee1' with required fieldname and datatype respectively.

Query to Create Table named employee1:

mysql>CREATE TABLE employee1 (              
         ->    Empid int(10),         
         ->    Empname varchar(60),   
         ->    date date 
         ->  );

Query to insert data into Table named employee1:

Once your table 'employee1' is created, you insert the values into this table using insert into keyword.

mysql>insert into employee1 values(01,'Girish','2008-12-20');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(02,'Komal','2008-12-21');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(03,'vineet','2008-12-21');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(04,'Amit','2008-12-20');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(02,'Komal','2008-12-23');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(02,'Sandeep','2008-12-24');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(02,'suman','2008-12-25');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>insert into employee1 values(01,'AAA',' 2008-12-03');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)

Query to view data of Table named employee1:

mysql> select * from employee1;
+-------+---------+------------+
| Empid | Name    | DOB        |
+-------+---------+------------+
| 1     | Girish  | 2008-12-20 |
| 2     | Komal   | 2008-12-21 |
| 3     | vineet  | 2008-12-21 |
| 4     | Amit    | 2008-12-20 |
| 2     | Komal   | 2008-12-23 |
| 2     | Sandeep | 2008-12-24 |
| 2     | suman   | 2008-12-25 |
| 1     | AAA     | 2008-12-03 |
+-------+---------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Query to view min date from column DOB of Table named employee1:

The given below Query is used to view the minimum date from column DOB as fieldname 'MINIMUNDATE' of table name 'employee1'.

mysql> select min(DOB)as MINIMUNDATE from employee1;

Output:-

+-------------+
| MINIMUNDATE |
+-------------+
| 2008-12-03  |
+-------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

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