Thread: AW: [HACKERS] distinct. Is this the correct behaviour?

AW: [HACKERS] distinct. Is this the correct behaviour?

From
Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5
Date:
>     select distinct f1 from t1 order by f2;
> 
> Returned the following message under Oracle8 on NT:
>     ORA-01791: not a SELECTed expression

Informix:    309: ORDER BY column (f2) must be in SELECT list. 

Andreas


Re: AW: [HACKERS] distinct. Is this the correct behaviour?

From
Vince Vielhaber
Date:
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:

> >     select distinct f1 from t1 order by f2;
> > 
> > Returned the following message under Oracle8 on NT:
> >     ORA-01791: not a SELECTed expression
> 
> Informix:    309: ORDER BY column (f2) must be in SELECT list. 

The version of sybase I tried earlier was 4.9.2.  I just tried it
again on 11.5 -- same thing.

Vince.
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