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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: SQL Puzzle - too many dimensions
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In message <92nbumFrggU1@mid.individual.net>, Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 08.05.2011 04:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message<tnibs6hnfdp2cav0u74d8heeqsdkvg1c6a@4ax.com>,  wrote:
>>
>>> But anyway, this is in an Oracle DB, and they don't let you include
>>> columns in a group-by query that aren't explicitly group-by that way.
>>
>> Sounds like as good a time as any to move away from Oracle.
> 
> That's ridiculous.  This query can be easily done with Oracle.

That wasn’t quite what I meant.