How to group by year

Question

Hi,
I have the following simple query:
SELECT pubdate, title
FROM table
ORDER BY date DESC
Which returns hundreds of records. Instead of outputing every
single date within a year for pubdate, I would like to group the
output based on the year. So the display would like something like:
2008
2007
2006
1970 etc.
How can I output this?

Answer 1

jenn wrote:
> But this displays all the dates within a year. I just
want to display the #DatePart("yyyy", date# to get
> 2008, 2007 etc. and not 5/21/08, 5/21/08....1/1/1979.
Well then that is what would need to be in your query. Ok you
could do
it with code in the CFML, but that would be much more effort.
SELECT pubdate, title, year(pubDate) AS year
FROM table
ORDER BY year(pubdate) DESC, pubdate DESC
<!--- this is a pseudo code example. The exact SQL date
function will
very from one database management system to another. --->
<cfoutput query="simpleQry" group="year">
#year#
<cfoutput>
#pubDate#: #title#<br/>
<cfoutput>
<hr/>
</cfoutput>