Questions tagged [table-alias]
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How to properly write sub querys that use math functions to compute column in the face of "Error Code 1248" Derived Tables must have their own Alises?
I being asked in exercise to calculate three values from two columns, List_price and discount_amount. partly some of my issue is that my programming instincts want to kick in hindering my ability to fully grasp what is being taught.
Can someone…

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How to fix Oracle Error "ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended" with 'AS' keyword using several tables?
Oracle gives an error for the following code:
SELECT actor_name,
char_name
FROM zActor AS zAct,
zCharacter AS zChar
WHERE zChar.char_num IN
(SELECT COUNT(zP.char_num) AS charCount
FROM zPlay AS zP,
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Subquery table-alias not being recognized in JOIN-ON/WHERE
I'm trying to lend some help to a hobbyist friend, using SQL Server experience to help with MySQL.
He's working on a game database. I wrote this query for him
SELECT ib.itemid, ii.realname as name, ib.stackSize,
IFNULL(ah.price, '-') as…

Regular Jo
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SQL - Table alias in Left Join
I am trying to write a simple SQL query with Left Join.
This is the query:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM TRN_IN.COIT AS TRANSMISSIONS
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT TRNNumber ,COUNT(ID)
FROM TRN_IN.COIT AS TOTAL_LINES
…

Yaniv Ben-Malka
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MySQL table alias does not work
So I am using 'as' command in this code
select PERSONAL_ID,NAME,SURNAME,BIRTH_DATE,NUMBER_OF_ORDERS
from(
select PERSONAL_ID,NAME,SURNAME,BIRTH_DATE,count(CUSTOMER_ID) as NUMBER_OF_ORDERS
from customer as C
right join
customer_hotel as CH on…

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What does "foo" mean in this SQL Server Query?
for eg...
SELECT *
FROM ( SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY stud_mark DESC) AS ranking,
stud_id,
stud_name,
stud_mark
FROM tbl_student ) AS foo
WHERE ranking = 10
Here foo is…
John
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what's the key word as in sql really indicate
1:here is a SQL query , which i find in the book
select distinct T.branch_name
from branch as T, branch as S
where T.assets > S.assets and
S.branch_city = 'Brooklyn'
what i am confused is T and S both indicate table branch…

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How can I give an alias to a table in Oracle?
Why can't I give an alias to a table in Oracle DB? I tried to write a statement like this one:
select count(id) from users as usr where usr.dept = "SVC";
But Oracle threw me an error. I don't remember having problem when I use something like this…

Carven
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Table Alias in SubSonic
How can I assign alias to tables with SubSonic 2.1?
I am trying to reproduce the following query:
SELECT *
FROM posts P
RIGHT OUTER JOIN post_meta X ON P.post_id = X.post_id
RIGHT OUTER JOIN post_meta Y ON P.post_id = Y.post_id
WHERE X.meta_key =…

Trav L
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How to use a table alias with a Union statement in Access?
In an unpivoting operation, I would like the following:
SELECT A, B, C FROM [complex joins/where clause] As DerivedTable
UNION
SELECT A, B, D FROM DerivedTable
UNION
SELECT A, B, E FROM DerivedTable
...
but it complains that DerivedTable cannot be…

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Super trivial postgreSQL question (alias)
This is what I did
select f.visits
from pls_fy2014_pupld14a pfpa as f
and I got:
SQL Error [42601]: ERROR: syntax error at or near "AS"
This case below is working but I don't get why I cannot use 'as'
select visits
from pls_fy2014_pupld14a pfpa

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MySQL Not unique table/alias
I looked at the answers of others having the same problem, but I can't figure out how to fix the "Not unique table/alias".
SELECT m.*, u.*
FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users_medals u
LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."medals m ON u.medal_id = m.medal_id
WHERE…

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How to solve this Oracle SQL issue?
select * from(select e.*,dense_rank() over(partition by dept_name order by salary desc) as Top_salaried
from employee e) as B where Top_salaried <= 3;
I have the above query that fetches top 3 salary from each dept
above is working fine…

Mohasin Inamdar
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Sql multiple nested selects
As you can see, the beginning and the end of the week are selected with this code. I'm new to sql and I understand what's going on here in general, but I can't explain it in detail. For example ;
(select lookupweekid-1 from lookupday where…

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ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended in oracle database
select
*
from
(
select
rating,
avg(age) as avgage
from
sailors
group by
rating
) as temp
where
temp.avgage = (
select
min(temp.avgage)
from
temp
);
When i am trying to…

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