WHERE VS GROUP BY VS HAVING:
Group by clause
The Group by clause is often used to arrange identical duplicate data into groups with a select statement to group the result-set by one or more columns. This clause works with the select specific list of items, and we can use HAVING, and ORDER BY clauses. Group by clause always works with an aggregate function like MAX, MIN, SUM, AVG, COUNT.
Let us discuss group by clause with an example. We have a VehicleProduction table and there are some models with a price and it has some duplicate data. We want to categorize this data in a different group with a respective total price.
Example
- Create table VehicleProduction
- (
- Id int primary key Identity,
- Model varchar(50),
- Price money
- )
- Insert into VehicleProduction values('L551', 850000),('L551', 850000),('L551', 850000),('L551', 750000),
- ('L538', 650000),('L538', 650000),('L538', 550000),('L530', 450000),('L530',350000), ('L545', 250000)
- Select * from VehicleProduction
Output
Aggregate Functions
MAX() - function returns the maximum value of the numeric column of specified criteria.
Example
- Select max(Price) As 'MaximumCostOfModel' from VehicleProduction
Output
MIN() – function returns the minimum of the numeric column of specified criteria
Example
- Select Min(Price) As 'MinimumCostOfModel' from VehicleProduction
Output
SUM() - function returns the total sum of a numeric column of specified criteria.
Example
- Select SUM(Price) As 'SumCostOfAllModel' from VehicleProduction
Output
AVG() - function returns the average value of a numeric column of specified criteria.
Example
- Select AVG(Price) As 'AverageCostOfModel' from VehicleProduction
Output
COUNT() - function returns the number of rows that match specified criteria.
Example
- Select Count(Price) As 'TotalVehicleModels' from VehicleProduction
Output
Distinct clause
The distinct clause is used to filter unique records out of the duplicate records that satisfy the query criteria.
Example
- Select Distinct(Model), Price from VehicleProduction
Output
Group by clause
The Group by clause is often used to arrange the identical duplicate data into groups with the select statement. This clause works with the select specific list of items, for that we can use HAVING, and ORDER BY clauses
Syntax
- SELECT Column1, Column2
- FROM TableName
- GROUP BY Column1, Column2
Example
- Select * from VehicleProduction
- Select Model, Price from VehicleProduction
- group by Model, Price
Let’s look at an example of GROUP BY with aggregate functions.
GROUP BY with aggregate functions
Example
- Select Model, Price, Count(*) As QtyOfModel, Sum(Price) As TotPriceOfModel from VehicleProduction
- group by Model, Price
Output
Where clause
Where clause works with select clause but won’t work on the group by or aggregate function condition.
Example 1
- Select Model, Price from VehicleProduction
- where Model != 'L530'
- group by Model, Price
Output
Example 2: We can’t use where clause after group by clause
- Select Model, Price from VehicleProduction
- group by Model, Price
- where Model != 'L530'
Output
Having clause
Having clause works with a group by clause but specifically works on aggregate function condition.
Example
- Select Model, Price from VehicleProduction
- Group by Model, Price
- Having SUM(Price) > 600000.00
Output
ORDER BY clause
Order By clause shows the records in ascending or descending order of the specific condition
Example
- Select Model, Price from VehicleProduction
- Group by Model, Price
- Having SUM(Price) > 400000.00
- order by Price desc
Output
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