Question

I seek a way to be able to write something like this

select complicated_calculation1 as comp1, 
complicated_calculation2 as comp2, 
(comp1/comp2) as percent
from table

rather than writing it in the far more complicated way like this

select complicated_calculation1 as comp1, 
complicated_calculation2 as comp2, 
(complicated_calculation1/complicated_calculation2) as percent
from table

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Not in the same line.

What you can do is:

SELECT comp1, comp2, (comp1/comp2) as percent FROM(
select complicated_calculation1 as comp1, 
complicated_calculation2 as comp2
from table) AS t