CHAPTER 7
Advanced Grouping
The GROUP BY clause is a venerable member of the SQL statement family. After learning basic SELECT statements, it is one of first specialized parts of SQL that many practitioners cut their teeth on when learning to create aggregations from raw data and transforming that data into useful information.
At times in this chapter, you may think the examples seem trivial. These examples are constructed with the purpose of demonstrating the results of different facets of the GROUP BY clause, without any requirement to focus needlessly on the values in the output. Although there are many excellent examples based on financial ...
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