Selecting the most common value from relation - SQL statement

Question

I have a table within my database that has many records, some records share the same value for one of the columns. e.g.

|  id  |  name  |  software  |
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Answer 1

You can do it in many ways but the simplest way would be this

SELECT item  
FROM (SELECT item FROM your_table GROUP BY item ORDER BY COUNT(*) desc)  
WHERE ROWNUM<=1;