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Re: Dynamic Column Aliases

From: Michel Cadot <micadot{at}altern{dot}org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:02:05 +0100
Message-ID: <41fb26c5$0$6479$636a15ce@news.free.fr>

"Mike Davis" <cszymans_at_dgroovy.com> a écrit dans le message de news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0501281646420.27355_at_cpu04.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca...
| Is it possible to have dynamically aliased columns in a select
| statement without using dynamic sql?
|
| I'm wondering if there is a way to do something like the following:
|
|
| SELECT <fieldname> AS <package_name>.<constant> FROM <table>
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| --Mike

If this is in SQL*Plus you can do something like:

col mycol noprint new_value myalias
set termout off
select <package_name>.<constant> mycol from dual; set termout on
SELECT <fieldname> AS "&myalias" FROM <table>

Regards
Michel Cadot Received on Sat Jan 29 2005 - 00:02:05 CST

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