It really depends on the DBMS you are using, but you can use aliases as
a trick to solve this problem:
select a.col1 as a_col1, b.col1 as b_col1 from a join b on a.id=b.id
This will return the two columns a_col1 and b_col1
Cheers,
Marco
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On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 10:18, Matt Friedman wrote:
> Is there a way in SQL to have the column names prefixed by the table
> name in a result set after a join?
>
> Table A has column col1 and table B has columns col2 and col3
>
> After the join I want the result set to have columns named
>
> A.col1B.col2 B.col3
>
> Such that I can tell from which table each column came from.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Matt Friedman
>
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