Example: MINIMUM Used with CHARACTER Data
The following SELECT returns the immediately following result.
SELECT MINIMUM(Name) FROM Employee;
Result:
Minimum(Name) ------------- Aarons A
Example: JIT Inventory
Your manufacturing shop has recently changed vendors and you know that you have no quantity of parts from that vendor that exceeds 20 items for the ProdID. You need to know how many of your other inventory items are low enough that you need to schedule a new shipment, where “low enough” is defined as fewer than 30 items in the QUANTITY column for the part.
SELECT ProdID, MINIMUM(QUANTITY) FROM Inventory WHERE QUANTITY BETWEEN 20 AND 30 GROUP BY ProdID ORDER BY ProdID;
The report is as follows:
ProdID Minimum(Quantity) ----------- ----------------- 1124 24 1355 21 3215 25 4391 22
For time series examples, see Teradata Vantage™ - Time Series Tables and Operations, B035-1208.