Column alias as a select clause

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Is there a way to have a column alias as a select clause, like in:

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SELECT LoginName AS (SELECT AltCaption FROM Captions WHERE PK = 1000) FROM dbo.Users

Thanks in advance!

Posted 22-Nov-12 10:16am

Skippy II

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fjdiewornncalwe 22-Nov-12 17:00pm

I think my initial question is Why would you feel the need to do that. I can't off the top of my head think of any practical reason for ever doing it.

Skippy II 22-Nov-12 17:05pm

I use the sql result in a gridlike control. Since the end users have different nationalities, I'm looking for a way to have captions in different languages.

fjdiewornncalwe 22-Nov-12 17:14pm

That should be handled by regionalization in your application, not your database. You could still store the regionalized column names in your database, but use a second query to the database to retrieve the display name for a column based on your static base column name.

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2012-11-22T11:02:00

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I figured I would try and it doesn't appear that you can do this at all.

Posted 22-Nov-12 11:02am

fjdiewornncalwe