ORA-00979 not a group by expression

Question

I am getting ORA-00979 with the following query:

SELECT cr.review_sk, cr.cs_sk, cr.full_name,
tolist(to_char(cf.fact_date, \'mm/dd/yyyy\')) \"appt\",
cs.cs_i         


        

Answer 1

In addition to the other answers, this error can result if there's an inconsistency in an order by clause. For instance:

select 
    substr(year_month, 1, 4)
    ,count(*) as tot
from
    schema.tbl
group by
    substr(year_month, 1, 4)
order by
    year_month