In 5.7 the sqlmode is set by default to:
ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
To remove the clause ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY you can do this:
SET sql_mode=(SELECT REPLACE(@@sql_mode,'ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY',''));
This supposed you need to make that GROUP BY with non aggregated columns.
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