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LEAST
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LEAST() function produces the least value among all the arguments.
SELECT least(2, 3);
create.select(least(2, 3)).fetch();
The result being
+-------+ | least | +-------+ | 2 | +-------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
least(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, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLServer, Snowflake, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
least(2, 3)
Firebird
minvalue(2, 3)
SQLite
min(2, 3)
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