SQL MIN() Function

MIN() Function

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

SQL MIN() Syntax

Demo Database

In this tutorial, we will use the EXAMPLE sample database.

The following is data selected from the "Websites" table:

+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| id | name         | url                       | alexa | country |
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| 1  | Google       | https://www.google.cm/    | 1     | USA     |
| 2  | 淘宝          | https://www.taobao.com/   | 13    | CN      |
| 3  | Example      | http://www.example.com/    | 4689  | CN      |
| 4  | 微博          | http://weibo.com/         | 20    | CN      |
| 5  | Facebook     | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3     | USA     |
|  6 | 百度         | https://www.baidu.com/    |     4 | CN      |
|  7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ |     0 | IND     |
+----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+

SQL MIN() Example

The following SQL statement gets the minimum value from the "alexa" column of the "Websites" table:

Example

SELECT MIN(alexa) AS min_alexa FROM Websites;

The result of executing the above SQL is as follows: