Question

When using Aliases with your select query like this:

SELECT u.col1 AS u_col1
    , u.col2 AS u_col2
    , u.col3 AS u_col3
    -- etc
    , u2.col1 AS u2_col1
    , u2.col2 AS u2_col2
    , u2.col3 AS u2_col3
etc.

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Is there a way to shorten the amount of syntax? So you don’t have to say ‘AS‘ for every alias?

I thought maybe: SELECT u.col1, u.col2 AS u_col1, u_col2

But that didn’t work.
Anyone know if it’s possible?

Thanks all 🙂

Answer 1

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

The AS keyword is optional when aliasing a select_expr with an
identifier.

So simply do:

SELECT 
      u.col1 u_col1
    , u.col2 u_col2
    , u.col3 u_col3
    ...