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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, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, -- ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLSERVER, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB greatest(2, 3) -- FIREBIRD maxvalue(2, 3) -- SQLITE max(2, 3)
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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