Derived Tables

Derived table:

Example of using Derived table

Assume you have a table daily_sales and suppose we want to produce ranking of the
sum of sales of products .
As we know we cannot use OLAP and aggregate functions together in a single query.

Hence we use a derived table as shown in the below query. The derived table contains
the sum of sales per product and then the outer query uses the this result for performing
ranking.

Select prodid,RANK(sumsales) from
(Select product_id, sum(sales) from
daily_sales group by product_id) AS D_TABLE(prodid,sumsales);

In the above query the derived table name is D_TABLE.
For derived table the select query should be within the parentheses following the FROM
clause.
We can optionally provide names to the columns in the derived table. In the above
example we named the derived columns as prodid and sumsales.