MySQL GROUP BY

Last Updated: March 14, 2022

GROUP BY clause allows you to group a set of rows into groups

GROUP BY Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition
GROUP BY column_name(s)
ORDER BY column_name(s);

Example

Student table with student_name, subject, and marks

Get the average marks of the subjects

SELECT subject, AVG(marks) FROM students
GrOUP BY subject;

To get the average marks of each student, you can run the following query

SELECT student_name, AVG(marks) FROM students
GrOUP BY student_name;

Following aggregate function can be used in GROUP BY queries

  • AVG
  • COUNT
  • SUM
  • MAX
  • MIN
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