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What is the difference between renaming a column and giving an alias to it?
What is the difference between renaming a column and giving an alias to it?
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Renaming a column means permanently changing its actual name in the original table. Giving an alias to a column means giving it a temporary name while executing an SQL query, with the purpose to make the code more readable and compact.