To work with Column Names of a Select Statement

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Hi Friends

I am facing one problem right now as " I want to give the value of a variable to the column name that i am going to select in a select statement ".
Examplly like
if i have a variable @date='01-2012'
then i want this value as a heading to my select statement
which is like
SELECT a , b ,c,
d AS @date
from table

So what i need is that i want @date Value to come as the heading of the select statement.

Thanks in advance .

Posted 17-Jan-12 2:31am

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Om Prakash Pant · Answer 1 · 2012-01-17T02:58:00

Solution 1

Instead of variable you can directly put the constant:

SQL

SELECT a , b ,c, d AS '01-2012' from table_name

or you need to execute the dynamic query:

SQL

declare @tdate varchar(20)
set @tdate = '01-2011'
exec('select sellerid, sellername as [' + @tdate + '] from sellers')

Posted 17-Jan-12 2:58am

Om Prakash Pant