Mark Stanton wrote: > I'm guessing that the new enginebehaviour whereby a group by clause > must include all the fields that are selected is to follow a new SQL > standard, is that right? > > Regardless of the source, why is this considered an improvement? It > seems to me to reduce my options for querying. I can imagine that > it's to "protect coders from themselves", but that's the only excuse > for it that I can come up with, and I don't want to be protected from > myself. > > Any thoughts?
If you want to include fields that are not in the group by sentence you can. But you must be explicit in your preferences. Before the value of the field could be the value of any of the values the field took inside a particular group. Now you just put max(field) or min(field) to select a specific value. Not much difference. > > Regards > Mark Stanton > One small step for mankind... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
