Maybe you think about WITH queries?
2011/4/17, Robert J.C. Ivens <robert@roclasi.com>:
>
> On 17 apr 2011, at 13:21, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined
>>> column
>>> aliases in the rest of a query. This would make queries with a lot of
>>> logic in those aliased columns a lot smaller and this easier to
>>> write/debug.
>>>
>>> I already know you can use the following syntax:
>>>
>>> SELECT col1, col2, col3, (col2-col3) as col4 FROM (SELECT col1, (long and
>>> lots of logic here) as col2, col3 FROM table) s WHERE col2 < aValue
>>>
>>> But when you need to use (calculated) values from the actual record and
>>> or
>>> have sub-selects in your main select that also need to use these values
>>> things get really hairy. I don't know if the SQL specification allows it
>>> but I know that RDBMS's like Sybase already support this.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> It's easy to define a view or an SQL function and stash the hairy logic
>> there.
>>
>> regards, Leif
>
> True, but that is essentially the same thing as the example query I gave.
> There are plenty of cases where this approach is not workable.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
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