I'm trying to do something like this. But I get an unknown column error:
SELECT SUM(field1 + field2) AS col1, col1 + field3 AS col3 from core
Basically, I want to just use the alias so that I won't need to perform the operations performed earlier. Is this possible in mysql?
select @code:= SUM(field1 + field2), @code+1 from abc;
But, please be aware of the following (from the MySQL 5.6 docs):
As a general rule, other than in SET statements, you should never assign a value to a user variable and read the value within the same statement. For example, to increment a variable, this is okay:
SET @a = @a + 1;
For other statements, such as SELECT, you might get the results you expect, but this is not guaranteed. In the following statement, you might think that MySQL will evaluate @a first and then do an assignment second:
SELECT @a, @a:=@a+1, ...;
However, the order of evaluation for expressions involving user variables is undefined.
So, use at your own risk.