FORMULA & SQL / LOOKUPS

Find the row with the largest value.
Tested, not guessed.

The Excel and Google Sheets formula and the SQL query, each run on the rows below. Open this with your own data ↗

The example rows

Row	A: Region	B: Rep	C: Amount	D: Order Date	E: Status	F: Customer
2	North	Ana	1,200	2026-03-01	Paid	Jo Smith
3	South	Ben	450	2026-03-15	Open	Raj Patel
4	North	Cy	300	2026-04-02	Paid	Lee Wong
5	East	Ana	980.50	2026-04-20	Paid	Mia Ross
6	North	Ben	75	2026-05-05	Open	Jo Smith
7	West	Dee	1,640	2026-05-18	Paid	Sam Okoro

Excel

=INDEX(A2:A7,MATCH(MAX(C2:C7),C2:C7,0))

Item number the position of the largest value in the Amount column (C2:C7) in the Amount column (C2:C7) of the Region column (A2:A7).

Run on the example rows:

ResultWest

PostgreSQL

SELECT region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1

Run on the example rows:

region	amount
West	1640

Other databases

MySQL

SELECT region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1

SQL Server

SELECT TOP 1 region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC

SQLite

SELECT region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1

BigQuery

SELECT region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1

Snowflake

SELECT region, amount
FROM sales
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1

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