SQL MIN() Function

The MIN() Function

The MIN() function returns the smallest value of the selected column.

SELECT MIN(column_name) FROM table_name

We have the following "Purchases" table:

PU_ID	OrderDate	OrderPrice	Customer
1	2015/11/12	1000	Karmen
2	2015/10/23	1600	Tendulkar
3	2015/09/02	700	Karmen
4	2015/09/03	300	Karmen
5	2015/08/30	2000	Jensen
6	2015/10/04	100	Tendulkar

Now we want to find the smallest value of the "OrderPrice" column.

We use the following SQL statement:

SELECT MIN(OrderPrice) AS SmallestOrderPrice FROM Purchases

The result-set will look like this:

SmallestOrderPrice
100

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