SQL Server Course for Beginners with 100+ examples - MIN() Function

The video tutorial explains how to use the MIN function in SQL to find the smallest value in a selected column. It demonstrates this with an example using a database named AMIDDB and an employee table. The tutorial shows how to fetch records and apply the MIN function to find the minimum salary. It also covers how to use an alias to name the result column for better readability.

Can you explain the steps to execute a query that returns the minimum salary from a database?

What does the alias in SQL do when retrieving data?