How to resolve “ORDER BY clause is not in SELECT list” caused MySQL 5.7 with SELECT DISTINCT and ORDER BY

Question

I installed the new Ubuntu and my code has got a problem with MySQL.

( ! ) Warning: PDOStatement::execute(): SQLSTAT         


        

Answer 1

If you have control of the server and you are running legacy code you can't easily change, you can adjust the SQL mode of the server and remove "only_full_group_by" either for the duration of boot, by running the query

SET GLOBAL sql_mode=(SELECT REPLACE(@@sql_mode,'ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY',''));

or by adding sql_mode='' to your my.cnf file.

Obviously its better to change your code if you have the possibility, but if not, this will disable that warning.