Comments on: A SQL question! http://stevereads.com/weblog/2012/07/11/a-sql-question/ Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: slaniel http://stevereads.com/weblog/2012/07/11/a-sql-question/#comment-6456 slaniel Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:04:51 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=7208#comment-6456 Ah; thanks, Tom. Could be, then, that the particular SQL dialects I use are more finicky than they ought to be. I’ll check with a few SQL dialects.

Cheers, Steve

]]> By: tomslee http://stevereads.com/weblog/2012/07/11/a-sql-question/#comment-6455 tomslee Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:02:55 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=7208#comment-6455 Just out of interest, I tested this with SQL Anywhere and

SELECT a+b AS somesum, a-b AS somediff, somesum + somediff AS somethingelse FROM sometable

works just fine.

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