Question

$construct = “SELECT * FROM mytable GROUP BY nid HAVING nid>1”;

    mytable:
+----+----------+
| id |    nid   |
+----+----------+
|  1 |     null |
|  2 |        1 |
|  3 |        1 |
|  4 |        1 |
|  5 |        2 |
|  6 |        2 |
|  7 |        3 |
|  8 |        3 |
|  9 |        4 |
| 10 |        4 |
-----------------

How do i GROUP BY nid except nid=1? This is a brief example but with my code i am not getting the desired results. Is the query correct for what i am trying to accomplish?

Answer 1

How about this:

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE nid != 1 ORDER BY nid

GROUP BY causes an aggregate query which you can only sensibly use with an aggregation function. For example, SELECT COUNT(*), nid GROUP BY nid would give you the counts of rows with a given nid.

Update: Not sure I’m understanding you, but how about this then:

(SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE nid = 1 UNION SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE nid != 1 GROUP BY nid) ORDER BY nid

I’m not sure it makes sense to mix aggregate and non-aggregate queries, though — on the aggregate side you’ll just end up with an indeterminate representative row of that group.