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## 15.4. Return

This is SQL’s `SELECT`. We just put it in the end because it felt better to have it there — you do a lot of matching and filtering, and finally, you return something.

Aggregate queries work just like they do in SQL, apart from the fact that there is no explicit `GROUP BY` clause. Everything in the return clause that is not an aggregate function will be used as the grouping columns.

SQL Query.

    SELECT "Person".name, count(*)
    FROM "Person"
    GROUP BY "Person".name
    ORDER BY "Person".name

NAME | C2
--- | ---
2 rows
`Anakin` | `1`
`Bridget` | `1`

Cypher Query.

    START person=node:Person('name: *')
    RETURN person.name, count(*)
    ORDER BY person.name

person.name | count(*)
--- | ---
2 rows
`"Anakin"` | `1`
`"Bridget"` | `1`

Order by is the same in both languages —`ORDER BY` expression `ASC`/`DESC`. Nothing weird here.

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