问题:
Given the CITY and COUNTRY tables, query the names of all the continents (COUNTRY.Continent) and their respective average city populations (CITY.Population) rounded down to the nearest integer.
Note: CITY.CountryCode and COUNTRY.Code are matching key columns. Do not include continents without cities in your output.
我的解决方案:
SELECT COUNTRY.CONTINENT, FLOOR(AVG(CITY.POPULATION)) FROM COUNTRY INNER JOIN CITY ON COUNTRY.CODE=CITY.COUNTRYCODE
但这似乎不起作用,直到我添加 GROUP BY 语句 更新的解决方案:
SELECT COUNTRY.CONTINENT, FLOOR(AVG(CITY.POPULATION)) FROM COUNTRY INNER JOIN CITY ON COUNTRY.CODE=CITY.COUNTRYCODE GROUP BY COUNTRY.CONTINENT
为什么会这样呢?为什么不显示新 INNER JOIN 表的平均人口值? 我知道这会给我错误的答案,即它将显示每个大陆相同的平均人口值。但我的疑问是,为什么当我不添加 GROUP BY 语句时它不起作用。
抛出的错误:
ERROR 1140 (42000) at line 1: In aggregated query without GROUP BY, expression #1 of SELECT list contains nonaggregated column 'run_y53padyvlle.COUNTRY.continent'; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
最佳答案
问题不在于 AVG()
。你可以这样做:
SELECT FLOOR(AVG(ci.POPULATION))
FROM COUNTRY c INNER JOIN
CITY ci
ON c.CODE = ci.COUNTRYCODE;
这将返回一行,它是数据库中所有城市的总体平均人口。
问题是当你这样做时:
SELECT c.CONTINENT, FLOOR(AVG(ci.POPULATION))
. . .
CONTINENT
部分未聚合。 SQL 引擎需要知道如何处理它。将 key 放入 GROUP BY
中:
GROUP BY c.CONTINENT
表示您希望结果集中为 CONTINENT
中的每个值占一行。
关于mysql - 聚合函数需要GROUP BY吗?,我们在Stack Overflow上找到一个类似的问题: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50582144/