SQL Aliases - SQL Tutorial
SQL aliases can be used with database tables and with database table columns, depending on task you are performing.
SQL column aliases are used to make the output of your SQL queries easy to read and more meaningful:
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SELECT Employee, SUM(Hours) As SumHoursPerEmployee FROM EmployeeHours GROUP BY Employee |
In the example above we created SQL alias SumHoursPerEmployee and the result of this SQL query will be the following:
| Employee | SumHoursPerEmployee |
| John Smith | 25 |
| Allan Babel | 24 |
| Tina Crown | 27 |
Consider the following SQL statement, showing how to use SQL table aliases:
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SELECT Emp.Employee FROM EmployeeHours AS Emp |
Here is the result of the SQL expression above:
| Employee |
| John Smith |
| Allan Babel |
| Tina Crown |
The SQL table aliases are very useful when you select data from multiple tables.