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MySQL is an open-source, relational database management system. If your PHP code uses MySQLi, use the MySQLi tag instead.

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Using a subquery to rename columns

as y FROM basetable) somealias; The issue is: a select query that does some complex operations, resulting in a column with a new name directly reusing the "new" column doesn't work in MySQL … (unsure about other RDBMS's) This code fails: SELECT <some gigantic and complicated query> as w, a + b as x, a - b as y, (w + x) / y as z FROM basetable; Because MySQL doesn't …
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