SQL - 选择最频率的项目

Question

假设我有如下表格：

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

如何使用SQL语句获取字段名称的最频率（Tony）？

Answer 1

有些事情：

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

Answer 2

您正在寻找的是模式。本文将介绍如何获取它（查看最后一个代码示例）：

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