Thanks, I eventually ended up doing something like that,and got it working. I booked marked the your example and will try variations of it.
I got most of my system working, but I am still overwhelmed with economic data releases from around the word. On 5/3/10, Tim Romano <tim.romano...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matt, > You cannot select a column from a relation if the relation does not include > the column. The query inside the ( ) returns a single column, table_id. > > select a_format > from > ( > select table_id > from table_id_list > where prefix_code = 'MyPrefix_code' > ); > > However, if table_id corresponds to a_format, you can supply an alias for > that column in the inner select, like this: > > select a_format > from > ( > select table_id as a_format > from table_id_list > where prefix_code = 'MyPrefix_code' > ); > > > Regards > Tim Romano > Swarthmore PA > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Matt Young <youngsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am a bit of a novice. I am dealing with meta data, descriptions of >> the Bureau of Labor Statistics database. BLS data is identified by a >> series code (16 chars long) but the series format is different for >> each data group) >> >> I need to extract from an SQL table the names of other SQL tables and >> reference them in a second query to build the proper series_id code: >> >> I haven't tried this, I assume it can't be done: >> >> select a_format from (select table_id from table_id_list where >> prefix_code = 'MyPrefix_code'); >> >> Is this beyond SQL? Is there a better solution? >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
