Lesson 7. Creating Calculated Fields
In this lesson, you will learn what calculated fields are, how to create them, and how to use aliases to refer to them from within your application.
Understanding Calculated Fields
Data stored within a database’s tables is often not available in the exact format needed by your applications. Here are some examples:
You need to display a field containing the name of a company along with the company’s location, but that information is stored in separate table columns.
City, state, and ZIP codes are stored in ...
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