Question

i want to create a temporary table on the fly from a result set so that i can run some queries against this resultset.

Here is my sql:

CREATE TABLE temp_table_1 AS (SELECT * FROM A LEFT OUTER JOIN B ON A.id = B.id WHERE B.id IS null);


SELECT QUA.id, QUA.name, QUA.address, QUA.acc, QUA.module, QUA.tag
FROM QUA,temp_table_1
WHERE 
QUA.name = temp_table_1.name AND 
QUA.acc = temp_table_1.acc AND
QUA.tag = temp_table_1.tag

When i run the first query to create the temp table, I get the error message:

‘Duplicate Colum Name ‘id”

Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

You’re getting both columns A.id and B.id without aliases to differentiate them. Be specific about the columns you select:

CREATE TABLE temp_table_1 AS (
  SELECT 
    A.id AS aid
    A.othercol AS a_othercol,
    B.id AS bid,
    B.othercol AS b_othercol
  FROM A LEFT OUTER JOIN B ON A.id = B.id WHERE B.id IS null);

It’s unwise to use SELECT * because you can’t always guarantee the order that the columns will return in, if something changed in the original CREATE TABLE statement, for example. Also, as you’ve discovered here, similarly named columns will cause problems in many circumstances.