[thesite] database: content table

Warden, Matt mwarden at odyssey-design.com
Sat May 26 00:28:20 CDT 2001


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> see, any time you have a group by, the columns in the group by have
> to be in the select list too
> 
>   select state, sum(cats)
>     from census
> 
> bzzzzt,  this gives an error, you can't have an aggregate function
> without the group by if there's a plain old ordinary column in the
> select list  

see, this is what always fux0rz me up. Because, I can do this:

select state, 1
    from census

and that will give me

AK 1
OH 1
MD 1
...

You'd think the aggregate function would act the same why. Got a clue
why it doesn't rudy? There's surely a reason I'm not thinking about.


yaknowwhuddimean?



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mattwarden
mattwarden.com

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