Question

I am trying to view the lengthiest posts on stackoverflow using:

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new

I am doing:

select max(body) from posts;​

and it returns:

You'd be looking to static link (as opposed to dynamically link)

I'm not sure how many of the MS redistributables statically link in.

Answer 1

The max function returns the maximum value of an expression. What (I think) you want is a combination of top and len(body).

select top 10 len(body), Id as [Post Link] 
from posts
order by len(body) desc