Referring to a Column Alias in a WHERE Clause

Question

SELECT logcount, logUserID, maxlogtm
   , DATEDIFF(day, maxlogtm, GETDATE()) AS daysdiff
FROM statslogsummary
WHERE daysdiff > 120

I get

Answer 1

The most effective way to do it without repeating your code is use of HAVING instead of WHERE

SELECT logcount, logUserID, maxlogtm
   , DATEDIFF(day, maxlogtm, GETDATE()) AS daysdiff
FROM statslogsummary
HAVING daysdiff > 120

Answer 2

If you don't want to list all your columns in CTE, another way to do this would be to use outer apply:

select
    s.logcount, s.logUserID, s.maxlogtm,
    a.daysdiff
from statslogsummary as s
    outer apply (select datediff(day, s.maxlogtm, getdate()) as daysdiff) as a
where a.daysdiff > 120

Answer 3

Came here looking something similar to that, but with a CASE WHEN, and ended using the where like this: WHERE (CASE WHEN COLUMN1=COLUMN2 THEN '1' ELSE '0' END) = 0 maybe you could use DATEDIFF in the WHERE directly. Something like:

SELECT logcount, logUserID, maxlogtm
FROM statslogsummary
WHERE (DATEDIFF(day, maxlogtm, GETDATE())) > 120