I did some more searching on the net and found the following in the "Oracle
7 Reference Manual"
You can use the GROUP BY clause to group selected rows and return a single
row of summary information. ORACLE collects each group of rows based on
the values of the expression(s) specified in the GROUP BY clause.
Which is what I got, but did not realize what it was :)
The manual is online at:
I contains "a lot" of stuff which "does not apply" to MySQL, but has some
handy definitions and examples which "do apply" to MySQL.