An alias is an alternative name. In computer science, the most common contexts are command aliases in shells, column aliases in databases, or variable references in languages like C++.
For bash aliases use the bash-alias tag.
Questions tagged [alias]
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ORA-00972 identifier is too long alias column name
i have a query like :
SELECT column as averyveryveryverylongalias (more than 30 characters)
FROM Table_name
it returns the error ORA-00972 identifier is too long , is there any tip to make it work without making the alias shorter?
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Cannot find module that is defined in tsconfig `paths`
I am trying to setup aliases for my mock server. Whenever I try to compile ts files, it returns error that it couldn't find proper modules even though those are defined in tsconfig,json->paths
Folder structure:
├── server
│ └── src
│ …
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How do I create some variable type alias in Java
let say I have this code
Map list = new HashMap();
list.put("number1", "one");
list.put("number2", "two");
how can I make some "alias" the type
Map
to something that easier to be rewritten like
//…
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JavaScript function aliasing doesn't seem to work
I was just reading this question and wanted to try the alias method rather than the function-wrapper method, but I couldn't seem to get it to work in either Firefox 3 or 3.5beta4, or Google Chrome, both in their debug windows and in a test web…
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How to find out where alias (in the bash sense) is defined when running Terminal in Mac OS X
How can I find out where an alias is defined on my system? I am referring to the kind of alias that is used within a Terminal session launched from Mac OS X (10.6.3).
For example, if I enter the alias command with no parameters at a Terminal…
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How to make an import shortcut/alias in create-react-app?
How to set import shortcuts/aliases in create-react-app?
From this:
import { Layout } from '../../Components/Layout'
to this:
import { Layout } from '@Components/Layout'
I have a webpack 4.42.0 version.
I don't have a webpack.config.js file in the…
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How do you alias a type in Python?
In some (mostly functional) languages you can do something like this:
type row = list(datum)
or
type row = [datum]
So that we can build things like this:
type row = [datum]
type table = [row]
type database = [table]
Is there a way to do this in…
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How to install NPM package under alias or different name
How can I npm install a package into a different directory?
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Why can't I use alias in a count(*) "column" and reference it in a having clause?
I was wondering why can't I use alias in a count(*) and reference it in the having clause. For instance:
select Store_id as StoreId, count(*) as _count
from StoreProduct
group by Store_id
having _count > 0
Wouldn't work.. But it…
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Using an Alias in a WHERE clause
I have a query which is meant to show me any rows in table A which have not been updated recently enough. (Each row should be updated within 2 months after "month_no".):
SELECT A.identifier
, A.name
, TO_NUMBER(DECODE( A.month_no
…
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Is the 'as' keyword required in Oracle to define an alias?
Is the 'AS' keyword required in Oracle to define an alias name for a column in a SELECT statement?
I noticed that
SELECT column_name AS "alias"
is the same as
SELECT column_name "alias"
I am wondering what the consequences are of defining a…
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Is it possible to override git command by git alias?
my ~/.gitconfig is:
[alias]
commit = "!sh commit.sh"
However, when I type git commit, script is not called.
Is it possible, or I have to use another alias name?
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How to alias a function in PHP?
Is it possible to alias a function with a different name in PHP? Suppose we have a function with the name sleep. Is there a way to make an alias called wait?
By now I'm doing like this:
function wait( $seconds ) {
sleep($seconds);
}
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Why aliases in a non-interactive Bash shell do not work
I am trying to use aliases in a non-interactive bash shell. I have defined my aliases in ~/.bashrc and I have set the variable BASH_ENV=~/startUpFile. The contents of the startUpFile are source ~/.bashrc.
I can see that my aliases are recognized,…
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Alias hostname for localhost
Assuming that a local Python-Script is running a webserver.
Is there any way to set an alias, so that http://localwebapp/ equals http://localhost:1234/?
Edit: Or at least http://localwebapp:1234/ equals http://localhost:1234/?
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