On 18 Dec 2016, at 6:41pm, Keith Maxwell <keith.maxw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks again, maybe I didn't ask the question in the best way: why > with the query below do I get "Error: no such column: z"? > > SELECT (SELECT y FROM t1 ORDER BY abs(x - z) LIMIT 1) FROM t2; Because the inner SELECT does not have access to the details from the outer SELECT. It does not know what 'z' is. None of the tables in the inner SELECT have a column called 'z'. This works: SELECT y FROM t1 ORDER BY abs(x - (SELECT z FROM t2)) LIMIT 1; though I do not know if it does what you want it to do. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
