when I'm trying to use mysql to select the first form into the second form
select id, name ,
(case when years=1992 then cost else 0 end) as year1992,
(case when years=1993 then cost else 0 end) as year1993,
(case when years=1994 then cost else 0 end) as year1994
from pivot
group by name;
I got a strange error
ERROR 1055 (42000): Expression #1 of SELECT list is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column 'nctest.pivot.id' which is not functionally dependent on columns in GROUP BY clause; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
What's the problem here?
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I find I make a mistake using the group by.
select id, name ,
sum(case when years=1992 then cost else 0 end) as year1992,
sum(case when years=1993 then cost else 0 end) as year1993,
sum(case when years=1994 then cost else 0 end) as year1994
from pivot
group by id, name;
then it works;;
You are trying to SELECT
the id
column but you can't because it's not in the GROUP BY
expression.