How to get the maximum value of a database table's column programmatically

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dmitrii_fediuk (Dmitrii Fediuk) January 26, 2016, 3:13pm 2

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A code from the \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Category::_getMaxPosition() method can be simplified from 5 lines to 1