Question

After too many hours I can’t find the answer to this.

First my table

  id | one | two | three | four | five | galname
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  1  |  2  |  5  |   23  |  4   | 5    |  Bob

How do I find the highest value in the row and show colomun name.

three - 23

Answer 1

 select  id,  GREATEST(one, two, three, four, five) value,
        case GREATEST(one, two, three, four, five)
         when one then 'one'
         when two then 'two'
         when three then 'three'
         when four then 'four'
         when five then 'five' end column_name
 from your_table