The GROUP BY Clause
You can use the GROUP BY clause to divide the rows in a table into groups. You can then use the group functions to return summary information for each group.
In the syntax:
group_by_expression specifies columns whose values determine the basis for
grouping rows Guidelines
• If you include a group function in a SELECT clause, you cannot select individual results as well, unless the individual column appears in the GROUP BY clause. You receive an error message if you fail to include the column list in the GROUP BY clause.
• Using a WHERE clause, you can exclude rows before dividing them into groups.
• You must include the columns in the GROUP BY clause.
• You cannot use a column alias in the GROUP BY clause.
• By default, rows are sorted by ascending order of the columns included in the GROUP BY list.
You can override this by using the ORDER BY clause.