MIN()

The MIN() aggregate function takes the name of a column as an argument and returns the smallest value in a column.

Syntax

SELECT MIN(column_name)
FROM table_name;

The opposite of MIN() is MAX().

Example

For instance, suppose there’s a transactions table with the following values:

The given query will return the smallest value from the amount column:

SELECT MIN(amount)
FROM transactions;

The result would be: