How can I find the most frequent value in a given column in an SQL table?
For example, for this table it should return two
since it is the most frequent value:
one two two three
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Answer
SELECT `column`, COUNT(`column`) AS `value_occurrence` FROM `my_table` GROUP BY `column` ORDER BY `value_occurrence` DESC LIMIT 1;
Replace column
and my_table
. Increase 1
if you want to see the N
most common values of the column.