Documentation/How Tos/Calc: DMIN function

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DMIN

Returns the minimum (lowest) value in a column of a Calc 'database' table, in rows which meet specified criteria.

Syntax:

DMIN(database_table; field; criteria_table)

where

database_table is a range defining the data to be processed.

field is the column to examine. It may be a column number (1 is the first column of the database table, 2 is the second ...) or a column header (enclosed in quotation marks ””) or a cell referring to a column header.

criteria_table is a range containing criteria, which are used to select which rows of the database_table to examine.

The Database functions overview fully describes the use of these parameters.

Example:

In this spreadsheet:

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Name	Grade	Age	Distance to School	Weight
2	Andy	3	9	150	40
3	Betty	4	10	1000	42
4	Charles	3	10	300	51
5	Daniel	5	11	1200	48
6	Eva	2	8	650	33
7	Frank	2	7	300	42
8	Greta	1	7	200	36
9	Harry	3	9	1200	44
10	Irene	2	8	1000	42
11
12
13	Name	Grade	Age	Distance to School	Weight
14		2

DMIN(A1:E10; "Distance to School"; A13:E14)

returns the maximum distance to school that any child in the second grade has to travel (300, for Frank).

DMIN(A1:E10; 4; A13:E14)

returns the same result.

DMIN(A1:E10; D1; A13:E14)

also returns the same result.

Issues:

The OOo2.3 Help implies that 0 as a field will include the entire database table. This seems to be wrong - only the maximum in a single column can be found.

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See Also

• DCOUNT
• DCOUNTA
• DSUM
• DPRODUCT
• DMAX
• DAVERAGE
• DSTDEV
• DSTDEVP
• DVAR
• DVARP
• DGET
• MAX
• MIN
• Database functions overview
• Database functions
• Functions listed alphabetically
• Functions listed by category