Get MAX from a GROUP BY

Question

I was practicing some SQL when this hit me. I wanted to see how many times a certain commodity came up and from there get the commodity which came up the most.

Answer 1

It is fine just add desc to order by

SELECT commodity, COUNT(commodity) count FROM orders GROUP BY commodity ORDER BY count DESC;

first row will have max value and add limit to get just this one record

SELECT commodity, COUNT(commodity) count FROM orders GROUP BY commodity ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 1;