Question

I’m looking for a way to run a query that does a group by and then gives me what the largest group is.

For instance, if I had a table with a bunch of types of fruit and I queried that table with a group by fruit query and the most instances were apples, the largest group would be apples and it would return apples.

Make sense?

Answer 1

Maybe try something like:

SELECT fruit FROM (
    SELECT fruit, COUNT(*) AS `count`
    FROM fruits
    GROUP BY fruit
) sub
ORDER BY `count` DESC
LIMIT 1;