Shorter SQL statements by abbreviating table prefixes

Shorter SQL statements by abbreviating table prefixes






Instead of writing:

SELECT books.title, books.short, books.releasedate, authors.firstname, authors.lastname
FROM books, authors
WHERE books.author_id = authors.id AND authors.id = 21

You can write:

SELECT b.title, b.short, b.releasedate, a.firstname, a.lastname
FROM books b, authors a
WHERE b.author_id = a.id AND a.id = 21