Question

I have a master table (Team) and a detail table (TeamMember). TeamMember has a FK to Team.
I need to get the Team record for the team that has the most team members. I at first had

SELECT team.name
FROM   team
       INNER JOIN (SELECT TOP 1 COUNT(*) AS membercount,
                          teamID
                   FROM   teammember
                   GROUP BY teamID
                   ORDER BY Count(*) DESC) AS team_with_most_members
         ON team.id = team_with_most_members.teamID

I was informed that I cannot use TOP(1) in my queries. Anyone have an idea how I can do it without?

Thanks!

Team
ID, Name

TeamMember
ID, TeamID, UserID

Answer 1

This one is crude but it works:

SELECT t.name
FROM team AS t
JOIN teammember AS tm ON tm.teamID = t.ID
GROUP BY t.Name
HAVING COUNT(tm.id) = (SELECT MAX(members) FROM (SELECT COUNT(id) members FROM teammember GROUP BY teamid) AS sub)