Question

Is it possible to shorten a group by clause so that you do not have to repeat the fields mentioned in the select clause ad nauseam? For example:

SELECT
   field1,
   field2,
   field3,
   field4
FROM table
GROUP BY
   field1,
   field2,
   field3,
   field4

 to:

SELECT
 field1,
 field2,
 field3,
 field4
FROM table
GROUP BY
 SELECT.*

…or something to this effect. I’m writing a query that will be utilizing the sp_executesql() stored procedure and I’m running out of space available in my variable. Thank you much.

Answer 1

are you looking for SELECT DISTINCT or SELECT DISTINCTROW?