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GROUP BY empty grouping set

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A special kind of GROUPING SET is the empty grouping set, which can be achieved in standard SQL and many SQL dialects using GROUP BY (). It is implicit, whenever an aggregate function is present in a query, but not an explicit GROUP BY clause. 

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY ()
 
create.selectCount()
      .from(BOOK)
      .groupBy()
      .fetch();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

selectCount().from(BOOK).groupBy()

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK, (select count(*) dual from MSysResources) as empty_grouping_dummy_table
GROUP BY empty_grouping_dummy_table.dual

ASE, SQLDataWarehouse

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK, (select 1 as dual) as empty_grouping_dummy_table
GROUP BY empty_grouping_dummy_table.dual

Aurora MySQL, MemSQL

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY (SELECT 1
FROM DUAL)

Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, DB2, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, Oracle, Postgres, SQLServer, Sybase, Teradata, Trino

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY ()

ClickHouse, CockroachDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Redshift, SQLite, Vertica, YugabyteDB

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY (SELECT 1)

Derby, HSQLDB

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY 0

Firebird

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY (SELECT 1
FROM RDB$DATABASE)

Hana, Snowflake

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK
GROUP BY GROUPING SETS (())

Informix

SELECT count(*)
FROM BOOK, (select 1 as dual from systables where tabid = 1) as empty_grouping_dummy_table
GROUP BY empty_grouping_dummy_table.dual
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