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Database System Lab-6

SQL aliases provide temporary names for tables or columns to enhance readability during queries. They are created using the AS keyword and exist only for the duration of the query. The document also includes examples of using aliases and concatenating columns in SQL queries.

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Database System Lab-6

SQL aliases provide temporary names for tables or columns to enhance readability during queries. They are created using the AS keyword and exist only for the duration of the query. The document also includes examples of using aliases and concatenating columns in SQL queries.

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SQL Aliases

Database system
Aliases

 SQL aliases are used to give a table, or a column in a table, a temporary name.

 Aliases are often used to make column names more readable.

 An alias only exists for the duration of that query.

 An alias is created with the AS keyword.


 SELECT StudentID AS ID
FROM Student;
aliasing used on column & Table

 SELECT column_name AS alias_name


FROM table_name;
 SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name AS alias_name;
Concatenate Columns

 SELECT ID, Student_name + ', ' + PostalCode + ' ' + City + ', ' + Country AS Address
 FROM Student;
 SELECT o.OrderID, o.OrderDate, c.CustomerName
FROM Customers AS c, Orders AS o
WHERE c.CustomerName='Around the Horn' AND c.CustomerID=o.CustomerID;
SQL SELECT DISTINCT Statement

 SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM Customers;


Task

 Write a SQL query that retrieves the ID, Contact, and Student name Address ," using table aliases, and then
retrieve a list of distinct Cities from the Student table.
Answer

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