SQL: Alias Column Name for Use in CASE Statement

Question

Is it possible to alias a column name and then use that in a CASE statement? For example,

SELECT col1 as a, CASE WHEN a = \'test\' THEN \'yes\' END as value          


        

Answer 1

I think that MySql and MsSql won't allow this because they will try to find all columns in the CASE clause as columns of the tables in the WHERE clause.

I don't know what DBMS you are talking about, but I guess you could do something like this in any DBMS:

SELECT *, CASE WHEN a = 'test' THEN 'yes' END as value FROM (
   SELECT col1 as a FROM table
) q

Answer 2

make it so easy.

select columnnameshow = (CASE tipoventa
when 'CONTADO' then 'contadito'
when 'CREDITO' then 'cred'
else 'no result'
end) from Promocion.Promocion 

Answer 3

SELECT
    a AS [blabla a],
    b [blabla b],
    CASE c
        WHEN 1 THEN 'aaa'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'bbb'
        ELSE 'unknown' 
    END AS [my alias], 
    d AS [blabla d]
FROM mytable

Answer 4

I use CTEs to help compose complicated SQL queries but not all RDBMS' support them. You can think of them as query scope views. Here is an example in t-sql on SQL server.

With localView1 as (
 select c1,
        c2,
        c3,
        c4,
        ((c2-c4)*(3))+c1 as "complex"
   from realTable1) 
   , localView2 as (
 select case complex WHEN 0 THEN 'Empty' ELSE 'Not Empty' end as formula1,
        complex * complex as formula2    
   from localView1)
select *
from localView2

Answer 5

• If you write only equal condition just: Select Case columns1 When 0 then 'Value1' when 1 then 'Value2' else 'Unknown' End

• If you want to write greater , Less then or equal you must do like this: Select Case When [ColumnsName] >0 then 'value1' When [ColumnsName]=0 Or [ColumnsName]<0 then 'value2' Else 'Unkownvalue' End

From tablename

Thanks Mr.Buntha Khin

Answer 6

@OMG Ponies - One of my reasons of not using the following code

SELECT t.col1 as a, 
     CASE WHEN t.col1 = 'test' THEN 'yes' END as value 
FROM TABLE t;

can be that the t.col1 is not an actual column in the table. For example, it can be a value from a XML column like

Select XMLColumnName.value('(XMLPathOfTag)[1]', 'varchar(max)') 
as XMLTagAlias from Table