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


SELECT MIN(column_name)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

Let's put these statements into real use.

We've a table named Students in our database that contains the following records:

Now lets select the smallest value of ROLL_NO from Students Table.


SELECT MIN(ROLL_NO) AS "SmallestRollNo"
FROM Students;

The above SELECT statement returns the smallest value.

SmallestRollNo
1

We can select the smallest value from table with where condition.


 SELECT MIN(ROLL_NO) AS "SmallestRollNo"
 FROM Students
 WHERE SUBJECT='HTML'

The above SELECT statement retrieve the smallest value if the SUBJECT is HTML.

SmallestRollNo
3

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