MySql 5.7 ORDER BY clause is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column

Question

I'm trying to figure out without disabling "only_full_group_by" in my.ini

here is my query:

SELECT 
  p.title,
  COUNT(t.qty) AS total 
FROM
  payments t 
  LEFT JOIN products AS p 
    ON p.id = t.item 
WHERE t.user = 1 
GROUP BY t.item
ORDER BY t.created DESC;

and tables:

Payments:

id     item   user   created
============================
1      1      1      2017-01-10
2      2      1      2017-01-11
3      3      1      2017-01-12
4      4      1      2017-01-13
5      1      1      2017-01-14

Products:

id     title    created
==========================
1      First     2016-12-10
1      Second    2016-12-11
1      Third     2016-12-12
1      Fourth    2016-12-13

The final result should look lie:

Name    Total
First   2
Second  1
Third   1
Fourth  1

But if I change my query to GROUP BY t.item, t.created Error is gone, but I end up with five records instead of four, which is not what I want. Since I'm grouping items based on "item" field, there should be only four records

Answer 1

This is your query:

SELECT p.title, COUNT(t.qty) AS total 
-------^
FROM payments t LEFT JOIN
     products AS p 
     ON p.id = t.item 
WHERE t.user = 1 
GROUP BY t.item
---------^
ORDER BY t.created DESC;
---------^

The pointed to places have issues. Notice that the SELECT and GROUP BY are referring to different column. In a LEFT JOIN, you (pretty much) always want to aggregate by something in the first table, not the second.

The ORDER BY is another problem. You are not aggregating by this column, so you need to decide which value you want. I am guessing MIN() or MAX():

SELECT p.title, COUNT(t.qty) AS total 
FROM payments t LEFT JOIN
     products AS p 
     ON p.id = t.item 
WHERE t.user = 1 
GROUP BY p.title
ORDER BY MAX(t.created) DESC;

I will also add that COUNT(t.qty) is suspect. Normally qty refers to "quantity" and what you want is the sum: SUM(t.qty).

Answer 2

There are two t.created for item 1. So decide by which you want to sort. E.g.:

ORDER BY MIN(t.created) DESC;