Test your knowledge of HAVING

The following query from the NBA Season 2017-2018 database returns the total points contribution, of a teams Centers, where total points are greater than 2500.

SELECT Team, 
    SUM(TotalPoints) AS TotalCPoints
FROM PlayerStats
WHERE Position = 'C'
GROUP BY Team
HAVING SUM(TotalPoints) > 2500;

Copy and paste the above query into the query console and select Run Code to check the results.

When using HAVING in a query which one of the following statements is FALSE?

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When filtering a numeric column, HAVING must be used with an aggregate function, for example: SUM(), COUNT(), AVG()…
WHERE and HAVING can be used in the same query.
Use HAVING with, and after, GROUP BY.
HAVING and WHERE produce the same output, so it doesn't matter which one you use.

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Test your knowledge of HAVING

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