At 12:22 AM 1/6/02 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Frank Bax writes:
>> EMPLOYEE table contains: emp, first, last (emp is unique key)
>> TIMESHEET table contains: emp, timestamp, hours
>> I want to report employee name and total hours.
>> SELECT first, last, sum(ts.hours)
>> FROM timesheet ts, employee emp
>> WHERE ts.emp = emp.emp
>> GROUP by emp.emp, first, last
>> ORDER BY last, first;
>>
>> It seems silly to specify extraneous "group by" fields.
>
>There's nothing "extraneous" there. Both first and last could be
>duplicated, so you need to group by each one.
But first and last can't be duplicated if emp is defined as unique. If I
am also selecting a dozen or so other fields from "employee" table, must I
also include them all in the GROUP BY clause, even though I know "emp"
identifies a unique row in this table?
Frank
