Removal of implicit and explicit sorting for GROUP BY
Removal of implicit and explicit sorting for GROUP BY In MySQL, historically GROUP BY was used to provide sorting as well. If a query specified GROUP BY, the result was sorted as if ORDER BY was present in the query. mysql-5.7> CREATE TABLE t (id INTEGER, cnt INTEGER); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec) mysql-5.7> INSERT INTO t VALUES (4,1),(3,2),(1,4),(2,2),(1,1),(1,5),(2,6),(2,1),(1,3),(3,4),(4,5),(3,6); Query OK, 12 rows affected (0.02 sec) Records: 12 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql-5.7> SELECT id, SUM(cnt) FROM t GROUP BY id; +——+———-+ | id | SUM(cnt) | +——+———-+ | 1 | 13 | | 2 | 9 | | 3 | 12 | | 4 | 6 | +——+———-+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) MySQL here implicitly sorts the results from GROUP BY (i.e.… Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Source: Removal of implicit and explicit sorting for GROUP [ more… ]