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class="refpurpose">Returns maximum value among all its arguments.</div> <div class="funcsynopsis"> <span class="funcdef">any <span class="function">__max</span> </span> (<span class="paramdef"> <span class="parameter">arg1</span> any</span>, <span class="paramdef"> <span class="parameter">arg2</span> any</span>, <span class="paramdef"> <span class="parameter">...</span> </span>, <span class="paramdef"> <span class="parameter">argN</span> any</span>); </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Description</div> <p>The function returns the maximum value among all values in all its arguments.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Parameters</div> <div class="refsect2"> <span class="refsect2title">argI – </span> Values which can be with type float, integer etc.</div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Examples</div> <a name="ex___max" /> <div class="example"> <div class="exampletitle" /> <p> <strong>Example 1</strong> </p> <div> <pre class="screen"> SQL> select __max(12, 2.34, 5, 20.5); __max VARCHAR _______________________________________________________________________________ 20.5 1 Rows. -- 16 msec. </pre> </div> <p> <strong>Example 2</strong> </p> <div> <pre class="programlisting"> SQL> SPARQL INSERT INTO GRAPH <http://mygraph2.com> { <http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal1> <price1> 1 ; <price2> 9 ; <price3> 5 . <http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal2> <price1> 3 ; <price2> 1 ; <price3> 4 . <http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal3> <price1> 6 ; <price2> 2 ; <price3> 2 . }; Insert into <http://mygraph2.com>, 9 (or less) triples -- done No. of rows in result: 1 SQL> SPARQL SELECT ?s (bif:__max(?pr1, ?pr2, ?pr3)) FROM <http://mygraph2.com> WHERE { ?s <price1> ?pr1 ; <price2> ?pr2 ; <price3> ?pr3 }; Query result: s callret-1 VARCHAR VARCHAR _______________________________________________ http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal3 6 http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal2 4 http://mygraph2.com/pricing/#QVal1 9 No. of rows in result: 3 </pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">See Also</div> <p> <a href="fn_nm_min.html">__min</a> </p> <p> <a href="fn_nm_min_notnull.html">__min_notnull</a> </p> <p> <a href="fn_nm_max_notnull.html">__max_notnull</a> </p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div>Copyright© 1999 - 2009 OpenLink Software All rights reserved.</div> <div id="validation"> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"> <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> </div> </div> </body> </html>