what's the difference between WHERE and HAVING

Question

It looks like both WHERE and HAVING help filter rows. I wonder if, instead of having to HAVING, I can use WHERE ... AND.

I'm a little confused.

Thanks for helping

Answer 1

You use "WHERE" clauses to select rows for inclusion in the dataset before grouping operations have happend (GROUP BY). You use HAVING clauses to filter rows after grouping.

So like if you're aggregating a sum or a maximum or a minimum, you can use HAVING predicates to check the aggregated values on the candidate rows.

Answer 2

There are some subtleties and intricacies, but quick description is a comparison: HAVING is to GROUP BY as WHERE is to SELECT.

In other words, if you think of HAVING as a WHERE clause that gets applied after the GROUP BY clause, things start to make sense.