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GREATEST
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The GREATEST() function produces the greatest value among all the arguments.
SELECT greatest(2, 3);
create.select(greatest(2, 3)).fetch();
The result being
+----------+ | greatest | +----------+ | 3 | +----------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
greatest(2, 3)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access
SWITCH(2 > 3, 2, TRUE, 3)
ASE, Derby, Informix, SQLDataWarehouse, Sybase
CASE WHEN 2 > 3 THEN 2 ELSE 3 END
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLServer, Snowflake, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
greatest(2, 3)
Firebird
maxvalue(2, 3)
SQLite
max(2, 3)
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