You can rename a table or a column temporarily by giving another name, which is known as ALIAS. The use of table aliases means to rename a table in a particular SQLite statement. Renaming is a temporary change and the actual table name does not change in the database.
The column aliases are used to rename a table’s columns for the purpose of a particular SQLite query.
Syntax
Following is the basic syntax of table alias.
SELECT column1, column2.... FROM table_name AS alias_name WHERE [condition];
Following is the basic syntax of column alias.
SELECT column_name AS alias_name FROM table_name WHERE [condition];
Example
Consider the following two tables, (a) COMPANY table is as follows −
sqlite> select * from COMPANY; ID NAME AGE ADDRESS SALARY ---------- -------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- 1 Paul 32 California 20000.0 2 Allen 25 Texas 15000.0 3 Teddy 23 Norway 20000.0 4 Mark 25 Rich-Mond 65000.0 5 David 27 Texas 85000.0 6 Kim 22 South-Hall 45000.0 7 James 24 Houston 10000.0
(b) Another table is DEPARTMENT as follows −
ID DEPT EMP_ID ---------- -------------------- ---------- 1 IT Billing 1 2 Engineering 2 3 Finance 7 4 Engineering 3 5 Finance 4 6 Engineering 5 7 Finance 6
Now, following is the usage of TABLE ALIAS where we use C and D as aliases for COMPANY and DEPARTMENT tables respectively −
sqlite> SELECT C.ID, C.NAME, C.AGE, D.DEPT
FROM COMPANY AS C, DEPARTMENT AS D
WHERE C.ID = D.EMP_ID;
The above SQLite statement will produce the following result −
ID NAME AGE DEPT ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- 1 Paul 32 IT Billing 2 Allen 25 Engineering 3 Teddy 23 Engineering 4 Mark 25 Finance 5 David 27 Engineering 6 Kim 22 Finance 7 James 24 Finance
Consider an example for the usage of COLUMN ALIAS where COMPANY_ID is an alias of ID column and COMPANY_NAME is an alias of name column.
sqlite> SELECT C.ID AS COMPANY_ID, C.NAME AS COMPANY_NAME, C.AGE, D.DEPT
FROM COMPANY AS C, DEPARTMENT AS D
WHERE C.ID = D.EMP_ID;
The above SQLite statement will produce the following result −
COMPANY_ID COMPANY_NAME AGE DEPT ---------- ------------ ---------- ---------- 1 Paul 32 IT Billing 2 Allen 25 Engineering 3 Teddy 23 Engineering 4 Mark 25 Finance 5 David 27 Engineering 6 Kim 22 Finance 7 James 24 Finance