Question

What is the correct SQL (MYSQL) for finding the value that occurs the most?

Here’s what I thought it might have been:

SELECT TOP 1 `my_field` FROM `my_table`
GROUP BY COUNT(`my_field`)
ORDER BY DESC

Answer 1

To get the most commonly occuring value:

SELECT `column`
FROM `table`
GROUP BY `column`
ORDER BY count(`column`) DESC
LIMIT 1