Question

I’m used to running on an Oracle database, so I’m not really quite sure how to trouble shoot this problem. I’ve narrowed down a simple example of my query to the following:

 SELECT 0 as gm_rowID, 
'-ALL Grantmakers-' as grantmakerName 
FROM dual
GROUP BY 2

phpMyAdmin runs the SQL with the following error:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY 2 LIMIT 0, 30' at line 1

Oracle can run this query just fine. MySQL can run the query without the GROUP BY clause. Any ideas?

–Here is the entire query:

SELECT 
    p.grantmaker_rowid as gm_rowID, 
    gm.grantmaker_companyName as grantmakerName 
FROM grantmaker_info gm, proposal_submission p 
WHERE 0=0 
AND p.grantmaker_rowid = gm.grantmaker_rowid 
UNION 
SELECT 
    0 as gm_rowID, 
    '-ALL Grantmakers-' as grantmakerName
FROM dual 
ORDER BY 2
GROUP BY 2
LIMIT 0 , 30

Answer 1

Columns selected for output can be referred to in ORDER BY and GROUP BY clauses using column
names, column aliases, or column positions. Column positions are
integers and begin with 1

From: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html

Unless you only have 1 column in that table, it should run fine. My suggestion however would be to reference the column name (or alias) of whatever you’re trying to GROUP BY.

edit: My only other suggestion is to include the SHOW CREATE TABLE output for that table.

edit2: Ok I see you’ve updated your question. Why not instead of ORDER BY 2, you ORDER BY grantmakerName (if that’s the column you want to order by?)