SQL Exercises: Find the maximum purchase amount of all the orders
SQL Aggregate Functions: Exercise-6 with Solution
From the following table, write a SQL query to find the maximum purchase amount.
Sample table: orders
Sample Solution:
SELECT MAX (purch_amt)
FROM orders;
Output of the Query:
max 5760.00
Code Explanation:
The said SQL statement is used to retrieve the highest value in the "purch_amt" column from the 'orders' table. The "MAX" function is used to find the maximum value in the specified column.
The result of the query would be a single value representing the highest "purch_amt" in the 'orders' table.
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SELECT * FROM ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY OrderDate ) AS RowNum, * FROM Orders WHERE OrderDate >= '1980-01-01' ) AS RowConstrainedResult WHERE RowNum >= 1 AND RowNum < 20 ORDER BY RowNum
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