What is the difference between DISTINCT and GROUP BY?

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by horace , in category: Technology , 3 years ago

What is the difference between DISTINCT and GROUP BY?

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by julio.mcglynn , 3 years ago

DISTINCT can return NULL values because it considers NULL as a value and selects one NULL from many, however, GROUP BY does not consider NULL values as a record. GROUP BY sorts the records where DISTINCT does not.

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