Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> writes:
> Quick test:

> create table a(a int primary key, b int, c varchar(200));
> insert into a(a, b, c) values (1,1,'one');
> insert into a(a, b, c) values (2,2,'two');
> insert into a(a, b, c) values (3,1,'one');
> insert into a(a, b, c) values (4,2,'two');

> mysql> select a,b,c from a group by b;
> +---+------+------+
> | a | b    | c    |
> +---+------+------+
> | 1 |    1 | one  |
> | 2 |    2 | two  |
> +---+------+------+
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Egad :-(.  At least the SQL spec has some notion of wanting the answer
to a query to be well-defined ...

            regards, tom lane