----- Original Message -----
From: "Owens, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: finding max value after query


> I have a query that returns, potentially, several hundred records.  There
is
> a column that can contain a value between 1 and 12 (though not necessarily
> 12).
>
> I'm trying to find a function or some method that will tell me what that
MAX
> value was.  I know I could get the information via query, but I'd rather
not
> run a separate query to get this value.
>
> I could, I supposed, use valuelist() to make the query a list and then get
> the last element of that list (which, since this is an ordered column,
would
> be the highest value), but that seem decidedly inefficient.
>

Assuming that the query is, as you say, ordered by that particular column...

<cfoutput>#queryName.columnName[queryName.recordCount]#</cfoutput>

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