Hi Bryan,

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Bryan Pendleton wrote:
> On 09/10/2010 02:48 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to use a column alias (from the column list of the
> > SELECT statement) in the HAVING clause.
> ...
> > Derby clearly knows this, as using the expression instead of the alias
> > works:
> 
> After fairly extensive discussion (see this issue for a good overview:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2457), the community decided,
> I believe, that this was correct behavior according to the SQL standard.

Thanks for pointing me to that issue. I would not have guessed that it had 
already been discussed in such detail :)

I would try to argue the case, but I guess I'd have to take it up with the 
SQL Standards group, and that might take a few years :)

Cheers, Chris.
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