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Question

我有一张桌子上有一些书.这些是领域:

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| book             | genre    | author             |
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| The DaVinci code | thriller | Dan Brown          |
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| Odd Thomas       | horror   | Dean Kunz          |
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| Fairy Tales      | child    | The Grimm brothers |
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| Inferno          | thriller | Dan Brown          |
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| Digital Fortres  | sci-fi   | Dan Brown          |
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我想让"丹·布朗"成为表中大多数书籍的作者.你能帮我怎么样？谢谢

Answer 1

select author -- what you select
from table -- from where
group by author -- grouping on author so you can get count of entries for each author
order by count(*) desc -- order by the number of entries descending
limit 1 -- keep first row only