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I have the following simple table:

CustomerID  CustomerName   NumOfOrders
1           Joe            15
2           Jane           20
7           Clara          1

I want to find the customer with maximum number of orders. Seems trivial enough but I can,t seem to find a solution.

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Use ORDER BY NumOfOrders DESC LIMIT 1

Member Avatar for ZER09

hello can i intercept this thread?

which is faster select max(NumOfOrders) from table

or

select NumOfOrders from table order by NumOfOrders desc limit 1

Edited by pritaeas because: Added markdown.
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Why don't you profile that query, I think it depends on whether you're using the right index.

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Select Top 1 CustomerID,CustomerName, NumOfOrders from Table order by NumOfOrders desc
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TOP 1 is used in MS SQL Server, not MySQL.

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