Re: Avoiding New Fields Causing Ambiguity Errors

On 15 May 2002 12:38:40 -0700, lennart_at_kommunicera.umea.se (Lennart Jonsson) wrote:

>
>> It seems that some database engines don't let one use
>> alias columns within WHERE clauses for some odd
>> reason.
>
>Sounds odd enough :-) How does one join a table with it self without using alias?
>Can you provide the name of the db so I know what to avoid in the future ;-)

There is a difference between "column aliases" and "table aliases". The first are defined in the SELECT, and might therefore not be available in the WHERE-clause (and certainly cannot be available in the FROM-clause.

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Nis Jorgensen
Amsterdam

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