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alias

An alternate name you give to a column or expression in a SELECT statement, often shorter or more meaningful. For example, BobSales is the alias in the following SELECT statement: "Select wr-Sales as BobSales from SalesDB". An alias can be used to dynamically assign columns to control bindings on the RDS.DataControl object.

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