MySQL query for maximum value of all records from last 5 days

I have a MySQL table:

myTable {Int id, Int value, Date date}

I wish to find the maximum value of all records from last 5 开发者_运维百科days.

So far I only managed to either get the maximum of all records for this day:

SELECT max(`value`) FROM myTable where `date` = CURDATE()

or all records from the last 5 days:

SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE `date` BETWEEN CURDATE() - INTERVAL 5 DAY AND CURDATE()

How do I get the maximum value of all records from last 5 days?

What about:

SELECT MAX(`value`) FROM myTable 
WHERE `date` BETWEEN DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 5 DAY) AND NOW()

You could create a temporary table

create temporary table temp_table SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE `date` BETWEEN CURDATE() - INTERVAL 5 DAY AND CURDATE()

Then

select max('value') from temp_table;