On May 19, 2011, at 12:28 AM, Igor Tandetnik wrote:

> That's SQLite extension. I don't believe it's legal standard SQL. The 
> alias in the SELECT clause acts kind of like a macro; its use in the 
> rest of the statement is simply replaced with the corresponding expression.

Mind-boggling. Border line insane :)

> The query could be written without using this feature, but it wouldn't 
> be quite as neat and readable.

Neat indeed. Well played :))

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