Question

select  cast(de.ApprovalOrder AS VARCHAR(32)) 
            + cast(de.EntityCode AS VARCHAR(32)) 
            + isnull(cast(de.DelegationCode AS VARCHAR(32)), '') as 'RowID' ,
            *
from    workflow.delegation_engine de
where   RowID <> NULL

When I try to execute the following I receive the error:

Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 13 Invalid column name ‘RowID’.

Just wondering how I can reference this temporary column? I searched for previous postings which suggested using ‘having’ for this however that doesn’t appear to work either.

Answer 1

One solution would be to make a subselect of the entire statement, applying the where clause on its result

select  *
from    (
          select  cast(de.ApprovalOrder AS VARCHAR(32)) 
                  + cast(de.EntityCode AS VARCHAR(32)) 
                  + isnull(cast(de.DelegationCode AS VARCHAR(32)), '') as 'RowID'
                  , *
          from    workflow.delegation_engine de
        ) de 
where   de.RowID IS NOT NULL

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Another solution could be to repeat the entire clause in the WHERE clause

select  cast(de.ApprovalOrder AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + cast(de.EntityCode AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + isnull(cast(de.DelegationCode AS VARCHAR(32)), '') as 'RowID' ,
        *
from    workflow.delegation_engine de
where   cast(de.ApprovalOrder AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + cast(de.EntityCode AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + isnull(cast(de.DelegationCode AS VARCHAR(32)), '') IS NOT NULL

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Or you could test each individual field for NULL

select  cast(de.ApprovalOrder AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + cast(de.EntityCode AS VARCHAR(32)) 
        + isnull(cast(de.DelegationCode AS VARCHAR(32)), '') as 'RowID' ,
        *
from    workflow.delegation_engine de
where   de.ApprovalOrder IS NOT NULL
        AND de.EntityCode IS NOT NULL