greatest
greatest
description
Syntax
greatest(col_a, col_b, …, col_n)
column
supports the following types: TINYINT
SMALLINT
INT
BIGINT
LARGEINT
FLOAT
DOUBLE
STRING
DATETIME
DECIMAL
Compares the size of n columns
and returns the largest among them. If there is NULL
in column
, it returns NULL
.
example
mysql> select greatest(-1, 0, 5, 8);
+-----------------------+
| greatest(-1, 0, 5, 8) |
+-----------------------+
| 8 |
+-----------------------+
mysql> select greatest(-1, 0, 5, NULL);
+--------------------------+
| greatest(-1, 0, 5, NULL) |
+--------------------------+
| NULL |
+--------------------------+
mysql> select greatest(6.3, 4.29, 7.6876);
+-----------------------------+
| greatest(6.3, 4.29, 7.6876) |
+-----------------------------+
| 7.6876 |
+-----------------------------+
mysql> select greatest("2022-02-26 20:02:11","2020-01-23 20:02:11","2020-06-22 20:02:11");
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| greatest('2022-02-26 20:02:11', '2020-01-23 20:02:11', '2020-06-22 20:02:11') |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2022-02-26 20:02:11 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
keywords
GREATEST