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Neither supersedes the other; Excel supports both.\n- **Confused with**: `MAX` (no selection stage), `LARGE` (k-th largest, no selection stage), and\n `MAXA` (which does count logicals and text as values).\n\n\n", "how-to-implement": "\n### Notes for implementers\n\n1. **The empty-selection answer is a convention, not a mathematical result.** Returning `0`\n rather than an error is a deliberate compatibility choice, and it must be applied *after*\n skipping non-numeric cells, not as a substitute for them.\n2. **Skip, do not coerce.** Admit only cells whose value kind is Number.\n4. **Numeric criteria comparison is not exact double comparison** — see the note in\n [the shared mechanism](FUNC.DAVERAGE.md#numeric-comparison-is-not-exact-double-comparison).\n\n\n", "quirks": "\n### Result and edge cases\n\n\nReturns a Number.\n\n- **No numeric value selected** — because no record matched, or because every matching record's\n field cell is blank or non-numeric: `0`, not an error. Pair with\n [DCOUNT](FUNC.DCOUNT.md) if you need to tell \"the maximum is zero\" from \"there was nothing to\n maximize\".\n- **Text that looks numeric in the field column** is skipped, per the range-scan side of the\n asymmetry in\n [coercion and lifting](../model/02-coercion-and-lifting.md#direct-arguments-versus-range-scans).\n- **Logicals in the field column** are skipped, so `TRUE` never wins as 1.\n- **Ties** are invisible: `DMAX` returns the value, not which record held it. Use\n [DGET](FUNC.DGET.md) with a criteria row keyed on the maximum if you need the record.\n- **Arrays**: inline array literals resolve to grids and are accepted; `DMAX` is not a lift\n kernel.\n\n\n\n### Errors\n\n\n| Error | Condition |\n|---|---|\n| `#VALUE!` | *database* or *criteria* is not a grid or is empty; a database header cell is blank; a criteria header names no database field; *field* matches no header, or is a non-integer or out-of-range column index |\n| propagated | An error value in a header cell, a criteria cell, or a scanned field cell surfaces as that error |\n\n", "sources": "- Microsoft, \"DMAX function\" —\n \n- Handbook `CHARTER.md` sections 1, 3 and 7; `content/model/06-claim-language.md`.\n- Handbook call-model chapters 02 and 03 (range-scan coercion, error folding).\n- [DAVERAGE](FUNC.DAVERAGE.md) — the family's shared criteria-range mechanism.\n- `data/functions/FUNC.DMAX.json`, `data/presence/FUNC.DMAX.json`.\n\n", "version-differences": "No comparison between specific Excel builds is recorded here yet. This does not establish that all builds behave alike.", "what-it-does": "\n`DMAX(database, field, criteria)` selects the records of *database* that satisfy *criteria*,\nreads the column named by *field*, and returns the largest of the numeric values found there.\n\nWith R the set of selected record rows, c the resolved field column, and\n\n V = [ v : v = value of cell (r, c) for r in R, where v is a Number ]\n\nThat zero is a genuine hazard on a column of negative numbers: a criteria range that matches\nnothing, or matches only records with blank field cells, gives `0` — a value larger than every\nnumber actually in the column.\n\nThe selection stage — header matching, AND across a criteria row, OR down the rows, blank\ncriteria cells, and criteria-expression parsing — is identical for all twelve database functions\nand is explained once in\n[the criteria-range mechanism](FUNC.DAVERAGE.md#the-criteria-range-mechanism).\n\n\n\n### Arguments\n\n\nThree arguments, all required at the call site; the reference implementation declares an arity\nof exactly 3.\n\n- **`database`** — the header-plus-records range or array.\n- **`field`** — the column selector, as header text or as a 1-based column index within the\n database range. Required; only [DCOUNT](FUNC.DCOUNT.md) and [DCOUNTA](FUNC.DCOUNTA.md) accept\n an omitted field.\n- **`criteria`** — the header-plus-conditions range or array.\n\n\n" }, "signature": { "display": "DMAX(database, field, criteria)", "parameters": [ { "description": null, "name": "database", "optional": false, "repeats": false }, { "description": null, "name": "field", "optional": false, "repeats": false }, { "description": null, "name": "criteria", "optional": false, "repeats": false } ], "trailing_repeats": false }, "sources": { "metadata": { "admission": { "label": "implemented", "reason": null }, "arity": { "max": 3, "min": 3 }, "category": "Database functions", "classification": { "arg_preparation_profile": "RefsVisibleInAdapter", "coercion_lift_profile": "Custom", "determinism_class": "Deterministic", "error_collapse_profile": "ReductionFold", "fec_dependency_profile": "RefOnly", "host_interaction_class": "None", "kernel_signature_class": "Custom", "rich_value_usage": "RichBlind", "surface_fec_dependency_profile": "RefOnly", "thread_safety_class": "SafePure", "volatility_class": "NonVolatile" }, "descriptions": { "long": null, "short": "Largest value of a database column over the matching records", "short_source": "dna-calc-own" }, "docs": { "english_description": "Returns the maximum value from selected database entries", "microsoft_url": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dmax-function-f4e8209d-8958-4c3d-a1ee-6351665d41c2" }, "entry_kind": "built_in_function", "localized_family_names": null, "localized_names": [ { "locale": "ar-SA", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "bg-BG", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "cs-CZ", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "da-DK", "name": "DMAKS" }, { "locale": "de-DE", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "el-GR", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "en-AU", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "en-GB", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "en-US", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "es-ES", "name": "BDMAX" }, { "locale": "et-EE", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "fi-FI", "name": "TMAKS" }, { "locale": "fr-FR", "name": "BDMAX*" }, { "locale": "he-IL", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "hr-HR", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "hu-HU", "name": "AB.MAX" }, { "locale": "id-ID", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "it-IT", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "ja-JP", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "ko-KR", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "lt-LT", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "lv-LV", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "nb-NO", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "nl-NL", "name": "DBMAX" }, { "locale": "pl-PL", "name": "BD.MAX" }, { "locale": "pt-BR", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "pt-PT", "name": "BDMÁX" }, { "locale": "ro-RO", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "ru-RU", "name": "ДМАКС" }, { "locale": "sk-SK", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "sl-SI", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "sr-Latn-RS", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "sv-SE", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "th-TH", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "tr-TR", "name": "VSEÇMAK işlevi" }, { "locale": "uk-UA", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "vi-VN", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "zh-CN", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "zh-HK", "name": "DMAX" }, { "locale": "zh-TW", "name": "DMAX" } ], "signature": { "display": "DMAX(database, field, criteria)", "parameters": [ { "description": null, "name": "database", "optional": false, "repeats": false }, { "description": null, "name": "field", "optional": false, "repeats": false }, { "description": null, "name": "criteria", "optional": false, "repeats": false } ], "trailing_repeats": false }, "surface_name": "DMAX", "version_marker": null, "xlcall": { "code": "44", "symbol": "xlfDmax" } }, "microsoft": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dmax-function-f4e8209d-8958-4c3d-a1ee-6351665d41c2" }, "try_it": { "formula": "=DMAX(B2:D6,\"Amount\",F2:F3)", "inputs": { "B2": "Name", "B3": "A", "B4": "B", "B5": "C", "B6": "D", "C2": "Group", "C3": "East", "C4": "East", "C5": "West", "C6": "East", "D2": "Amount", "D3": 10, "D4": 20, "D5": 30, "D6": 40, "F2": "Group", "F3": "East" } }, "url": "https://handbook.dnacalc.com/functions/DMAX.html", "variants": [], "versions": [] }