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Could anyone give me a simple example of the use of "Group By" WITHOUT any aggregation function?

What does it do? does it sort the results ? I couldn't find any good example without aggregation function..

Answer 1

is the GROUP BY statement in any way useful without an accompanying aggregate function?

You can perform a DISTINCT select by using a GROUP BY without any AGGREGATES.

Using DISTINCT would be a synonym in such a situation, but the reason you'd want/have to define a GROUP BY clause would be in order to be able to define HAVING clause details.

If you need to define a HAVING clause, you have to define a GROUP BY - you can't do it in conjunction with DISTINCT.

Answer 2

Refer this

Below Links will helpful for both (with aggregate function and without agreegate function)

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/sql/sql-group-by.htm