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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do
you use with character fields?

1. COUNT(field) and MAX(field)
2. AVG(field) and COUNT(field)
3. MIN(field) and SUM(field)
4. AVG(field) and MAX(field)
5. COUNT(field) and SUM(field)

Question Posted / suresh

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / tulsi

1)THE COUNT(field) and MAX(field) CAN BE USED WITH
CHARACTER FIELDS

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / guru manohar

You can use COUNT(field),MIN(field),MAX(field) functions for
character fields.

For example there is a table called DEPARTMENTS contains the
data as shown below:

DEPARTMENT_ID DEPARTMENT_NAME
---------------------------------
10 Administrator
20 Marketing
50 Shipping
60 IT

1)SELECT COUNT(department_name)
From DEPARTMENTS;

Output: 4

Note: Bcoz there are 4 rows with DEPARTMENT_NAME

2)SELECT MAX(department_name)
From DEPARTMENTS;

Output: Shipping
Note: Bcoz Shipping comes last in sorting by Ascending

3)SELECT MIN(department_name)
From DEPARTMENTS;

Output: Administrator
Note: Bcoz Administrator comes first in sorting by Ascending

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / menan

COUNT(field) and MAX(field)

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / santhosh , hyd

COUNT(field) and MAX(field)

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / sanjeev

You can use COUNT(field),MIN(field),MAX(field) functions for
character fields.

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Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? ..

Answer / paresh

COUNT(field) and SUM(field)

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