Referencing subselect returned value

[Marco Lazzeri]

I'd like to reference values returned by a subselect in the same SELECT
query.

Example:

SELECT id,
( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM second ) AS value_to_reference,
( value_to_reference + 1 ) AS value_that_uses_referenced_one
FROM first;

Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Marco
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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 21:21:56 +0100,
Marco Lazzeri <ma*******@noze.it> wrote:

I'd like to reference values returned by a subselect in the same SELECT
query.

Example:

SELECT id,
( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM second ) AS value_to_reference,
( value_to_reference + 1 ) AS value_that_uses_referenced_one
FROM first;

Any suggestions?

If you want to use a subselect repeatedly, you can either repeat it or
join it. Doing a join will normally be better.

Repeated select example:
SELECT id,
( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM second) AS value_to_reference,
( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM second)+1 AS value_to_reference_one,
FROM first;

Join example:
SELECT id,
cnt AS value_to_reference,
cnt+1 AS value_reference_one,
FROM first, (select COUNT(*) AS cnt from second) AS third;

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