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60. Order of SQL commands execution in a query

In the last lessons we learned GROUP BY statement. It is the foundation of data analysis with SQL. It allows us to group records and calculate aggregated values on them. Examples are numerous:

  • signups by country
  • signups by day
  • min/max/average age of users
  • min/max/average revenue per user/per county/per day etc

The real power comes when we start combining groups and look at our data from different angles. We’ll come to it in one of the next lessons.

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