The document discusses various group functions or aggregate functions in SQL that operate on groups of rows and return a single value. It lists functions such as AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, STDDEV, SUM, and VARIANCE along with descriptions and examples of how to use them to return average, number of rows, maximum value, minimum value etc. from groups of rows based on column values. It also discusses ORDER BY and GROUP BY clauses used to sort or group result sets.