FAQ: Conditional Aggregates - CASE WHEN

This community-built FAQ covers the “CASE WHEN” exercise from the lesson “Conditional Aggregates”.

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SQL: Table Transformation

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Hi everyone!! Can anyone explain how “GROUP BY” statements work? I’ve seen a few explanations but none of them seem consistent with the way we have used them in the course, or at least i’m not catching on. Any help is appreciated! thanks

GROUP BY let’s us specify which columns from the table to use and their order from left to right.

GROUP BY 1

Notice that column 1 is elevation_tier?

I see! and ORDER BY does the order from top to bottom?

thank you!

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Correct; ORDER BY is a sort order clause, hence the parameters, ASC and DESC.

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