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Can somebody please tell me how I can change my database so that it will do something else when a certain column is used (which isn't actually in that table)?

 

Like for example so that

select `MOO` from `database`.`table`

would act like

select substring_index(`row`,' ',99)as `MOO` from `database`.`table`

?

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I'm not sure that you'll be able to find anything like that in MySQL. This DB doesn't support functions like PostgreSQL or some other heavier weight database systems do. You may get by with creating a view that contains the definition of the column that you are after and simply selecting the column from the view instead.

 

Hope this helps.

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