On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:35:01 -0400, Colin Wetherbee <cww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > SELECT foo - bar AS baz FROM ( SELECT a.a + b.a AS foo, a.b + b.b AS > bar FROM a JOIN b ON a.id = b.id ) AS subtable; > Although, I'm not really sure that's The Right Way to do it. Thanks Colin, yes, I thought about that, but things get nasty when you have to do some other calculation with 'baz', with the output of that and so on (as I'm facing in my real tables). But this may really be the best solution anyway. Cheers, -- Seb