Posted by John Rivers on 01/08/07 23:38

Thanks for your reply

CTEs, Views and Derived Tables

all require a SELECT clause

what I am trying to achieve is a reusable FROM clause





On Jan 7, 8:38 am, "David Portas"
<REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dpor...@acm.org> wrote:
> John Rivers wrote:
> > create from dbo.fromExample
> > as
> > from dbo.Customers c
> > join dbo.Invoices i
> > on c.CustomerID = i.CustomerID
>
> > now you can use it as follows:
>
> > select c.CustomerID, i.InvoiceNo
> > from dbo.fromExample
>
> > I find I reuse FROM clauses alot
>
> > and reusing a "base query" requires writing a very large and cumbersome
> > select clauseUse a CTE
> or a view
> or a derived table
>
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>
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