Can I use ALL or ANY to find minimum value in SQL?

Question

Example of Table :

Table name : Ex1

Number
2
5
6
7
1
5
10

How to find the minimum value by using ALL or ANY in SQL ?

Answer 1

I believe you must rewrite your question describing a little bit more your answer, if possible in which database you would like to do this.

I don't know why would you like to do that instead of using MIN function.

In Oracle you could do this

select * from ex1 where number <= ANY (select number from ex1 where rownum=1 order by number asc)

But this will have the same result as:

 select * from ex1 where rownum=1 order by number asc

You could also do this:

select * from ex1 where number <= ALL (select number from ex1)

You can find more information here.

Answer 2

At the risk of upsetting my SQL server instance by using ANY (ALL would be better),

select number 
from ex1 
where number not in 
    (select number from ex1 where number > any (select number from ex1))

I feel dirty now.

Answer 3

Using ALL

SELECT * 
  FROM Ex1 
 WHERE Number <= ALL ( SELECT Number FROM Ex1 AS T2 );

Using ANY

SELECT * 
  FROM Ex1 
 WHERE NOT Number > ANY ( SELECT Number FROM Ex1 AS T2 );