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From Angshu Kar
Subject Re: MAX without FROM
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Msg-id df8328740601121114w7ac2ad0ctdac45afc695a907f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: MAX without FROM  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Responses Re: MAX without FROM  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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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 <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:
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;



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