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title: bottom() function
description: >
`bottom()` sorts each input table by specified columns and keeps the bottom `n`
records in each table.
menu:
flux_v0_ref:
name: bottom
parent: universe
identifier: universe/bottom
weight: 101
flux/v0/tags: [transformations, selectors]
introduced: 0.7.0
---
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`bottom()` sorts each input table by specified columns and keeps the bottom `n`
records in each table.
**Note:** `bottom()` drops empty tables.
##### Function type signature
```js
(<-tables: stream[A], n: int, ?columns: [string]) => stream[A] where A: Record
```
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For more information, see [Function type signatures](/flux/v0/function-type-signatures/).
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## Parameters
### n
({{< req >}})
Number of rows to return from each input table.
### columns
List of columns to sort by. Default is `["_value"]`.
Sort precedence is determined by list order (left to right).
### tables
Input data. Default is piped-forward data (`<-`).
## Examples
### Return rows with the two lowest values in each input table
```js
import "sampledata"
sampledata.int()
|> bottom(n: 2)
```
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#### Input data
| _time | _value | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4 | t1 |
| _time | _value | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1 | t2 |
#### Output data
| _time | _value | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2 | t1 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4 | t1 |
| _time | _value | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3 | t2 |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1 | t2 |
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