Question

What is the syntax to get the maximum character length from a column in a table. For example if I have something like this:

id | name | occupation
----------------------
1  | John  | writer
2  | Lisa  | waitress
3  | Timmy | soldier

And I wanted to get the largest value from the name column it would return:

3  | Timmy | soldier

Answer 1

If there are more rows having the same maximum length you’ll find them with

SELECT * FROM table
WHERE LENGTH(column) = ( SELECT MAX(LENGTH(column)) FROM table )