I use min(fieldname) as fieldname which is a little more than I want to type
but doesn't disturb my groupings.
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 05:02 pm, Daniele Orlandi wrote:
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > AFAIK it's a requirement of the SQL spec. (SQL92(draft) 7.9 SR 7, "each
> > <column reference> in each <value expression> that references a column
> > of T shall reference a grouping column or be specified within a <set
> > function specification>."
>
> I see... How should the "shall" term be considered ? I don't have much
> knowledge of the SQL specs language.
>
> How other DBMS behave in this case ? I know that mysql doesn't enforce
> this requirement but... mysql is not a perfect reference wrt standards
> compliance.
>
> > Well, it'd mean you didn't have to put the extra columns in the group by
> > list to make them grouping columns.
>
> This is what I currently do as a workaround, but it's not much clean
> expecially when you have many ungrouped fields in the target list.
>
> Bye!