From: Barry
Date: March 23 1999 4:11pm
Subject: Re: Group By vs. Order By
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Hello All,

I did some more searching on the net and found the following in the "Oracle
7 Reference Manual"

You can use the GROUP BY clause to group selected rows and return a single 
row of summary information. ORACLE collects each group of rows based on 
the values of the expression(s) specified in the GROUP BY clause.

Which is what I got, but did not realize what it was :)

The manual is online at:
  http://info-it.umsystem.edu/oracle/svslr/svslr.1.toc.html

I contains "a lot" of stuff which "does not apply" to MySQL, but has some
handy definitions and examples which "do apply" to MySQL.

Thanks,
Barry.