How to give alias name for group of columns.

Question

the below is the query to get Columns. But, i need to make single alias name to all the column which i get. I need to get column names also event, domain, entity, bpdid. Above columns should be under single alias name like 'baseMessage'. Please advise on this.
select (select decode(ICKD_CHR_KY1_ID,'I','New','D','Cancelled','U','Modified') from ICKD where ICKD_APLN_ID = 'CSTCOM' and ICKD_NUM_KY1_ID = 1438227010) event, 'Client' domain, 'CustomerCommunication' entity, 'General' scope, (select ICKD_NUM_KY6_ID from ICKD where ICKD_NUM_KY1_ID = 1438227010 and ICKD_APLN_ID = 'CSTCOM') bpdId from dual;

Answer 1

; WITH CTE AS (
    SELECT Case When  sum(b.targetTotal) > 0 then  Sum(b.targetTotal)  
                      else 0
           end as Profttarget,
           Case When  sum(a.salestotal) > 0 then  Sum(a.salestotal)  
                      else 0
           end as Sales,
           Case When  sum(a.salescost) > 0 then  Sum(a.salescost)  
                else 0
           end as SalesCost
    From  Sales A
    JOIN  Target B A.salesdate = B.salesdate
SELECT Profttarget- ( Sales - SalesCost ) as TargetRequired
FROM   CTE
This gives you a query that runs in SQL Server.
But it does not look right to me. I don't know what the keys of these tables are, but is it really salesdate in both? And even if it is, the join still looks strange.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]