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Thursday March 29, 2007
09:01 PM

Two small gripes about MySQL

[ #32839 ]
  1. You can use an aliased column in the GROUP BY clause, but not in the WHERE clause:

    SELECT func(foo) as alias FROM baz GROUP BY alias

    works, but

    SELECT func(foo) as alias FROM baz WHERE alias='quux'  (*)

    doesn't. You have to write

    SELECT func(foo) as alias FROM baz WHERE func(foo)='quux'

  2. Modifying a column: which phrase will do what I want? ALTER COLUMN, CHANGE COLUMN, or MODIFY COLUMN? I can never remember and have to look them up.

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  • I believe your example can be written thusly though:

    SELECT func(foo) as alias FROM baz HAVING alias='quux'

    • Which is still horrible because HAVING operates after a GROUP BY operation ... in fact I wonder if HAVING without a GROUP BY would give errors with other databases (SQLite 2.8.17 gives an error for example)
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