Question

Suppose I have the table as below:

id | name
----------
01 | Tony
02 | Peter
03 | Tony
04 | Tony
05 | John
.. | ..
99 | David

How can I use SQL statement to get the most frequency of the field name(Tony)?

Answer 1

Something along the lines of:

SELECT name
FROM table_name
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 1;