SQL - 选择最频项

Question

假设我有表如下：

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

如何使用SQL语句来获取字段名（托尼）的最频？

Answer 1

东西线沿线的：

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

Answer 2

你在找什么是模式。本文介绍了如何得到它（看最后的代码示例）：

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DataDesign/calculating-mean-median-and-mode-with-sq

Answer 3

SELECT Name, COUNT(*) 
FROM YourNames 
GROUP BY Name 
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC 
LIMIT 1