You're right about max() and group_concat() will not help you either. You need something like this:
select max(cnt) from (select count(*) as cnt from table_name group by SampleNum) Pavel On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Rick Ratchford <r...@amazingaccuracy.com> wrote: > > Suppose you had a column called SampleNumber. > > And in this column, you might have... > > 1 > 1 > 1 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > > etc. > > How would you write the SQL statement that would return the maximum number > of a sample? > > For example, if within the SampleNumber column, the SampleNumber 17 had more > records (say there are 23 SampleNumber = 17 in the table, more than any > other), you wanted to return the value 23? > > If I use max(SampleNum), that will return only the highest value in the > column rather than what I want, right? > > Is group_concat used here? > > > Thank you. > > Rick > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
