Consider a table:
create table book (book_id integer primary key, type varchar, title varchar); and some data for it: insert into book (book_id, type, title) values (1, 'hardback', 'book 1') ; insert into book (book_id, type, title) values (2, 'softback', 'book 2') ; Now execute the following SQL: select type, count(*) from book ; Which gives the result: type count(*) softback 2 I would have expected an error message here to the effect that a non aggregate value was not part of the grouping. The result is strange and misleading and can easily lead to data errors. The SQL statement should have been: select type, count(*) from book group by type ; Which gives: type count(*) hardback 1 softback 1 Best regards, Frank Missel _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users