On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 13:14, Angshu Kar wrote: > What are 1 ,2 and 3 in your query? > > Here is my inner query which returns a set of min values. I want to > get the max out of the returned mean values... > > select min(evalue) as M from distance where query_id > in (select entry_id from partition where partition = 849) > > On 1/12/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:58, Angshu Kar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can I use Select max(a field returned from another query)? > > say, another query returns say 10,1,2,3,6,7 > > Does this form help you: > > select max(a) from (select 1 as a union select 2 union select > 3) as b; The select 1 as a union ... part was just showing where you could put a REAL query that had multiple rows. Where is your evalue coming from, is that from partition? If so, you might be better off with a join of some kind. Maybe if you explain a little more what your data sets are and what you're trying to get from them...
