On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:36, Daevid Vincent wrote: > so then the next obvious question to ask is... is this just not > implemented yet, or is it not even on the radar as a 'feature'?
It'a behaviour. You can refer in the HAVING, ORDER BY and GROUP BY, but you can't in the select list and WHERE part. > Out of curiosity, do other SQL implementations (RDBMS) allow this > syntax? Seems in Access it's allowed, but I'm not sure. > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 08:06, Egor Egorov wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 04:04, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > Is this a bug or just not implemented in 3.23.56-Max? > > > > > > mysql> SELECT alarm_notes, DATE_FORMAT(alarm_date,'%m/%d/%y %h:%i %p') > > > AS alarm_date_format, IFNULL(CONCAT(contact_fname, ' ', alarm_date), > > > alarm_date_format) AS contact_name, contact_email, contact_phone FROM > > > alarm_table LEFT JOIN contact_table ON alarm_contact_table_id = > > > contact_id WHERE alarm_rep_table_id = '1' ORDER BY alarm_date; > > > ERROR 1054: Unknown column 'alarm_date_format' in 'field list' > > > > [skip] > > > > It's not a bug. You can't reference column aliases in the select list. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
