Query to select maximum of all minimum

I want to extract a row, with the max value in one field but is less than a certain value of that value;

Fore example,

SELECT id,max(val) WHERE val<23

Here, I need the value of the maximum of field val but which must be less than 23. This works and gives me, the maxi开发者_StackOverflow中文版mum values, but the id field is not respective to that field, it provides the id of the first occurence.

What is the right query?

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How about:

SELECT id, val FROM table WHERE val < 23 ORDER BY val DESC LIMIT 1

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Try this:

SELECT ID, VAL
FROM [TABLE]
WHERE VAL = (SELECT MAX(VAL) FROM [TABLE] WHERE VAL < 23)