SQL What Value Repeat Most

Question

My English isn't so good, so I'll give an example.

I have an SQL table that looks like this:

╔═══╦═════════════╗
║   ║ myColumn    ║
╠═══╬═════════════╣
║ 1 ║ repeat      ║
║ 2 ║ Foo         ║
║ 2 ║ Foo         ║
║ 3 ║ repeat      ║
║ 3 ║ repeat      ║
╚═══╩═════════════╝

I want to get the value that repeat most.

foo repeats twice, and repeat repeats 3 times, so I want to get the repeat .

I use mysql engine

Answer 1

This is an aggregation query:

select MyColumn, count(*) as NumRepeats
from t
group by MyColumn
order by count(*) desc;

Add limit 1 before the semicolon, if you only want the value that repeats the most.