{"id":17049,"date":"2024-03-15T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-usage-of-partition-by-in-sql\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:05:06","slug":"what-is-the-usage-of-partition-by-in-sql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-usage-of-partition-by-in-sql\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the usage of &#8220;partition by&#8221; in SQL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In SQL, PARTITION BY is a clause used to group data. It is often used with window functions to apply functions to each group and partition data based on specified columns.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the syntax:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>SELECT column1, column2, ..., function(column)\r\n  OVER (PARTITION BY partition_column)\r\n  FROM table_name;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above syntax, the partition_column specified after PARTITION BY determines the column that will be used to group the data. Each group will have its own calculated result.<\/p>\n<p>For example, suppose we have a table &#8216;sales&#8217; containing sales data with columns: salesperson, product, and quantity. We want to calculate the total quantity of each product sold by every salesperson. 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