Re: [GENERAL] MAX without FROM

2006-01-12 Thread Angshu Kar
Thanks Scott. I've used another way of getting the max - I've used order by desc in my inner query and selected top 1 to get the max value ...On 1/12/06, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:14, Angshu Kar wrote:> What are 1 ,2 and 3 in your query?>> Here is my inner q

Re: [GENERAL] MAX without FROM

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:14, Angshu Kar wrote: > What are 1 ,2 and 3 in your query? > > Here is my inner query which returns a set of min values. I want to > get the max out of the returned mean values... > > select min(evalue) as M from distance where query_id > in (select entry_id from partiti

Re: [GENERAL] MAX without FROM

2006-01-12 Thread Angshu Kar
What are 1 ,2 and 3 in your query?Here is my inner query which returns a set of min values. I want to get the max out of the returned mean values...select min(evalue) as M from distance where query_id in (select entry_id from partition where partition = 849) On 1/12/06, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [GENERAL] MAX without FROM

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:58, Angshu Kar wrote: > Hi, > > Can I use Select max(a field returned from another query)? > say, another query returns say 10,1,2,3,6,7 Does this form help you: select max(a) from (select 1 as a union select 2 union select 3) as b; ---(end of b

[GENERAL] MAX without FROM

2006-01-12 Thread Angshu Kar
Hi,Can I use Select max(a field returned from another query)?say, another query returns say 10,1,2,3,6,7 Thanks,AK-- Ignore the impossible but honor it ...The only enviable second position is success, since failure always comes first...