Question

I’d like to achieve something like this:

SELECT 
  (CASE WHEN ...) AS FieldA,
  FieldA + 20 AS FieldB
FROM Tbl

Assuming that by “…” I’ve replaced a long and complex CASE statement, I don’t want to repeat it when selecting FieldB and use the aliased FieldA instead.

Note, that this will return multiple rows, hence the DECLARE/SET outside the SELECT statement is no good in my case.

Answer 1

A workaroud would be to use a sub-query:

SELECT
  FieldA,
  FieldA + 20 AS FieldB
FROM (
  SELECT 
    (CASE WHEN ...) AS FieldA
  FROM Tbl
) t

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To improve readability you could also use a CTE:

WITH t AS (
  SELECT 
    (CASE WHEN ...) AS FieldA
  FROM Tbl
)
SELECT
  FieldA,
  FieldA + 20 AS FieldB
FROM
  t