On Sep 2, 2007, at 4:42 PM, 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.
OK, let's say you have a table of employees, with their name and
salary as fields. You write the following:
SELECT cName, SUM(salary) FROM Employees
What value should be in the 'cName' field?
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