On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:17:05 +0200
Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >  select id, category_id, name, min(price) as minprice
> >    from cat_pictures
> > group by category_id;
> > 
> > Done.  And no need for any windowing functions …
> 
> This peculiar behavior is very unique to SQLite. Most reasonable SQL
> engines will throw an exception when confronted with the above.
> SQLite calls it a feature. I personally see it as a misfeature.
> ( Ditto with tagging an implicit limit 1  to scalar queries. Anyway. )

Sorry, don't understand why others will throw an exception in the group by, 
perhaps I'm misunderstanding the group by, but that should work on others 
engines.

> On the other hand, one could look at the current ‘group by’ behavior
> as exhibited by SQLite as a precursor to a proper, more formalize,
> handling of analytic functions…. :)



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Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es>
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