Using subquery's alias in a WHERE statement

Question

I'm trying to use an alias created in a SELECT, but in a WHERE statement. I know it doesn't work and I just read why in another SO question.

But my question is : what other solution should I take to make this work without repeating the subquery?

SELECT p.PatientID, p.PatientType, p.AccountNumber, p.FirstName + ' ' + p.LastName PatientFullName, p.CreatedDate,
DATEDIFF(hour, p.CreatedDate, GETDATE()) TotalTime,
(SELECT AVG(BGValue) FROM BloodGlucose WHERE PatientID = p.PatientID) AvgBG
FROM Patients p
WHERE AvgBG > 60;

I know that this works:

SELECT p.PatientID, p.PatientType, p.AccountNumber, p.FirstName + ' ' + p.LastName PatientFullName, p.CreatedDate,
DATEDIFF(hour, p.CreatedDate, GETDATE()) TotalTime,
(SELECT AVG(BGValue) FROM BloodGlucose WHERE PatientID = p.PatientID) AvgBG
FROM Patients p
WHERE (SELECT AVG(BGValue) FROM BloodGlucose WHERE PatientID = p.PatientID) > 60;

But I don't want to repeat that subquery. And I'm pretty sure it isn't very performance-wise so that is the reason I'm asking for a better solution here.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try using a derived table instead.

SELECT p.PatientID, p.PatientType, p.AccountNumber, p.FirstName + ' ' + p.LastName PatientFullName, p.CreatedDate, DATEDIFF(hour, p.CreatedDate, GETDATE()) TotalTime, bg.AvgBG 
FROM Patients p 
JOIN (SELECT PatientID, AVG(BGValue) AvgBG   FROM BloodGlucose group by PatientID ) BG
    ON BG.PatientID = p.PatientID 
WHERE AvgBG > 60; 

Answer 2

The aliases in the WHERE clause can only come from the FROM clause. Here is a way to rewrite your query:

SELECT p.PatientID, p.PatientType, p.AccountNumber,
       p.FirstName + ' ' + p.LastName as PatientFullName, p.CreatedDate,
       DATEDIFF(hour, p.CreatedDate, GETDATE()) TotalTime,
       av.AvgBG
FROM Patients p join
     (SELECT PatientId, AVG(BGValue) as AvgBG
      FROM BloodGlucose
      group by PatientID
     ) av
     on p.PatientId = av.PatientId
WHERE av.AvgBG > 60;

Answer 3

SELECT p.PatientID, p.PatientType, p.AccountNumber, p.FirstName + ' ' + p.LastName PatientFullName, p.CreatedDate, DATEDIFF(hour, p.CreatedDate, GETDATE()) TotalTime, bg.AvgBG  
FROM Patients p  
outer apply (SELECT PatientID, AVG(BGValue) AvgBG   
FROM BloodGlucose where PatientID = p.PatientID  
 group by PatientID ) BG 
 WHERE AvgBG > 60; 

this should also work pretty quickly