Re: Aggregates on empty groups.

>> SELECT dept, SUM(sal) FROM Employees GROUP BY dept;

.. and departments that are not in emp relation: Finance 0 <<

But if Finance is not the Employees table, how does it get a group? You might build such a thing:

SELECT dept, SUM(sal) FROM Employees GROUP BY dept UNION
SELECT DISTINCT dept, {NULL | 0.00} FROM OtherDepartments;

or something with an OUTER JOIN, but this is not a simple GROUP BY. Received on Sun Aug 01 2004 - 22:22:04 CDT