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shanmugajothi
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 Posted - 2011-11-26 : 09:45:46
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| i had listed out department id and the number of duplicates present in it but i donno how to find the highest duplicate in the list |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2011-11-26 : 10:06:16
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| define highest duplicate. How do you determine highest? do you've any unique valued column to determine it?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-11-26 : 10:06:27
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| You could use the MAX function as in "select max(duplicate_count) from yourTable".Sometimes ORDER BY clause is more efficient - for example, "select top 1 duplicate_count from yourTable ORDER BY duplicate_count DESC" |
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