On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 14:35, Ray O'Donnell <ray@rodonnell.ie> wrote: > > On 15/10/2019 14:28, stan wrote: > > I used to be able to return a constant value in a SELECT statement in > > ORACLE. I need to populate a table for testing, and I was going to do so > > like this: > > > > SELECT > > employee.id , > > project.proj_no , > > work_type.type , > > 'rate' 1 > > FROM employee > > CROSS JOIN project > > CROSS JOIN work_type; > > > > This statement works correctly, till I add the last " 'rate' 1 line, then it > > returns a syntax error.
I would assume you have the value and the alias backwards and you want
SELECT 1 AS "rate"
Both the double quotes around the alias and the AS keyword are optional.