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Asked: 2026-05-22T00:34:15+00:00

So what I’m trying to do at the moment is to select a dataset

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So what I’m trying to do at the moment is to select a dataset of values depending on another autocalculated value.(Sounds pretty complicated. It isn’t I think and I’m not that much into english)

My SQL code looks like this:

SELECT ticket.ref_id AS id, COUNT( * ) AS reports, (COUNT(*)/post.views) AS
treshold,post.views AS views
FROM ticket, post
WHERE ticket.ref_id = post.id AND (reports/post.views)
GROUP BY ref_id
ORDER BY views,reports DESC

The problem is, when I try to use treshold or reports in the WHERE clause the query fails and says that there is no such value in ‘field list’.
I know where the problem is, it’s that MySQL seems not to allow the use of ‘self defined’ fields in the WHERE clause but i really need this and I dont know how to fix it.
Just using COUNT(*) doesn’t work either because it doesn’t know what to count.

Can anyone help me on this problem? I think it’s totally basic SQL but I’m stuck on this at the moment.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the the HAVING clause instead of WHERE for the unreferencable columns. It’s less performant, but it will do the job.

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html

    The HAVING clause is applied nearly
    last, just before items are sent to
    the client, with no optimization.
    (LIMIT is applied after HAVING.)

    A HAVING clause can refer to any
    column or alias named in a select_expr
    in the SELECT list or in outer
    subqueries, and to aggregate functions

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