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GROUP BY

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

phraseCore term

In software engineering, GROUP BY means: The SQL clause that puts rows with the same values into groups so that a total, count or average can be calculated for each group.

In Turkish: gruplama, GROUP BY ifadesi

How it is used

Used with aggregate functions: SELECT city, COUNT(*) FROM customers GROUP BY city. In standard SQL every selected column that is not inside an aggregate function must appear in GROUP BY; breaking this rule is one of the most common SQL errors.

Example sentences

  1. Group by month to see how revenue changed over the year.

  2. The query fails because product_name is in the SELECT list but not in the GROUP BY.

Common collocations

  • GROUP BY a column
  • group by date
  • GROUP BY with HAVING
  • grouped results
  • aggregate functionA SQL function that takes many rows and returns a single value from them, such as COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN or MAX.
  • HAVING clauseThe part of a SQL query that filters groups after GROUP BY has run, usually using the result of an aggregate function such as COUNT or SUM.
  • SELECT statementThe SQL statement that reads data from one or more tables and returns the matching rows without changing anything in the database.
  • window functionA SQL function that calculates a value across a set of related rows, such as a running total or a rank, while still returning every individual row.

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