ALIAS NAMES: It is a mechanism in SQL Server which allows users to provide

alternative or another name for the Entities (Tables) and their Attributes (columns).These
Alias names are mainly used to hide the original name of the table or column. These are
always associated with SELECT statement

Note: Alias names are only for temporary displaying purpose. Those names not stored
permanently into the database.

E.g.: SELECT EMPNO AS ENO, ENAME AS EMPLOYNAME, SAL AS BASICSAL,

DEPTNO AS DNO FROM EMP

Note: While providing alias names for the columns we have use a keyword called ‘AS’
in between original column name and alias column name

The above statement simply displays employ details by providing temporary column
names.

Alias names are also used to provide alternative names for the newly derived values .

E.g.: Write a Query to select SAL as BASIC_SAL, DA, HRA, PF, and NET, GROSS by
taking the following specification.

30% of salary as DA
20% of salary as HRA
10% of salary as PF
SAL+DA+HRA as GROSS
GROSS-PF as NET

SELECT SAL AS BASIC_SAL,

SAL*30/100 AS DA,
SAL*20/100 AS HRA,
SAL*10/100 AS PF,
(SAL+SAL*30/100+SAL*20/100) AS GROSS,
(SAL+SAL*30/100+SAL*20/100)-(SAL*10/100) AS NET
FROM EMP

In the above query the DA, HRA, PF, GROSS, NET are alias names provided for the
newly derived values.

Computed Columns:
These are the columns which completely depends on physical columns (EMPNO,
ENAME, SAL, …………).Computed columns can automatically arrange their values
according to the user specified formula or definition. For this computed columns user
need to supply any values or any data types. These are always associated with CREATE
statement.
E.g.: CREATE TABLE Student
(SNO INT, SNAME VARCHAR (20), M1 INT, M2 INT, M3 INT,
TOT_MAR AS (M1+M2+M3), AVG_MAR AS (M1+M2+M3)/3)

The above create statement creates a table student with 5 Physical columns and 2
Computed Columns. For the 2 computed columns user need to provide the values and
need not to provide data types.