Simon Slavin wrote: > As best I can find, SQL92 does not specify what happens when you choose > an AS clause giving a value name the same as a column.
| 7.3 <table expression> | | Function | | Specify a table or a grouped table. | | Format | | <table expression> ::= | <from clause> | [ <where clause> ] | [ <group by clause> ] | [ <having clause> ] | | [...] | General Rules | | 1) If all optional clauses are omitted, then the result of the <ta- | ble expression> is the same as the result of the <from clause>. | Otherwise, each specified clause is applied to the result of | the previously specified clause and the result of the <table ex- | pression> is the result of the application of the last specified | clause. | | [...] | | 7.9 <query specification> | | Function | | Specify a table derived from the result of a <table expression>. | | Format | | <query specification> ::= | SELECT [ <set quantifier> ] <select list> <table expression> | | <select list> ::= | <asterisk> | | <select sublist> [ { <comma> <select sublist> }... ] | | <select sublist> ::= | <derived column> | | <qualifier> <period> <asterisk> | | <derived column> ::= <value expression> [ <as clause> ] | | Syntax Rules | | 1) Let T be the result of the <table expression>. | [...] | | 6) Each <column reference> directly contained in each <value ex- | pression> ... shall unambiguously reference a column of T. | | [...] | General Rules | | 1) a) ii) [...] each <value expression> is applied to each row of T | yielding a table of M rows, where M is the cardinality of T. | The i-th column of the table contains the values derived by | the evaluation of the i-th <value expression>. In other words, aliases in the SELECT clause are evaluated _after_ the FROM and WHERE clauses are done. The order of the SELECT/WHERE clauses in the SQL syntax is misleading; the actual behaviour would be better represented by something like this: ( FROM test WHERE name = 'foo!' ) SELECT test.name || '!' AS name; Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users