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From Bruno Mueller
Subject refer to computed columns
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Hi

Think of the following query:

1 select
2  country,
3  (select sum(salary) from employees) as totalSalary,
4  sum(salary) as countrySalary,
5  countrySalary / totalSalary as countryPct
6 from employees
7 group by country
8 order by country
;

I know it does not work, but is there a way to refer to
the "computed" columns in line 5, so that I do not have
to repeat the calculations again.

BTW, are the calculation done more then once if I specify

1 select
2  country,
3  (select sum(salary) from employees) as totalSalary,
4  sum(salary) as countrySalary,
5  sum(salary) / (select sum(salary) from employees) as countryPct
6 from employees
7 group by country
8 order by country
;

Thanks for the help

Bruno



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