RE: Using field text instead of field names within SQL -- MIDRANGE-L

Its not impossible but I would not recommend it. You can alter the SQL column name with a quoted string like "This is a Long Column Name". When it appears in STRSQL or ACS RSS that string appears (quoted in STRSQL) and look like column text in ACS RSS. You then need to work with the short names or quote the long names from that point on.

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-Matt

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Hi Carel

Are you thinking of a union of some sort of the column headings in the first row and the data in the rest? I can't see anything other than that, and then the data types of your columns would all have to character.

Besides, how do you get the long column text for each column based on the column name? Especially if you use SELECT * - if there's a way, it'd be a lovely thing to know how to do.

Cheers

Vern

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Not even with e CTE?

I realize it is cumbersome to achieve, but styill ...

Op 9-7-2021 om 18:51 schreef Roger Harman:

I do a lot of extracts for end users and have a routine that queries SYSCOLUMNS to pick the text and use as the column labels.

Of course, that doesn't work with interactive SQL.

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Thanks for your reply Vern

Probably explains why my google search didn't give me the results I

was looking for

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Hi Alan

Basically the answer is no - SQL knows nothing about text or column headings, generally.

Run SQL Statements in ACS does give you the option, but it has had to pull in that "metadata" in order to present it.

The bare SELECT statement can't do it that I know of.

Some 3rd party products or community-provided utilities, such as SQL2JXL, might have a parameter to let you choose what to use - again, they have to pull that info separately.

Cheers

Vern

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Hi everyone

We are on V7r3

My mind is not working at the moment, and google search is not giving

me any results When I run the following SQL query Select * from

libname/filename The results have the field names as the column names

Is it possible to extract the field text instead of the field names as the column names?

Hope that makes sense

As always - all replies gratefully accepted

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