How can I give an alias to a table in Oracle?

Question

Why can\'t I give an alias to a table in Oracle DB? I tried to write a statement like this one:

select count(id) from users as usr where usr.dept = \"SVC\";
         


        

Answer 1

Oracle doesn't allow as for table aliases, only column aliases. So do:

select count(id)
from users usr
where usr.dept = 'SVC';