You may sometimes want to do a lookup and return it as a column in your query results – but you don’t want to reference the source table in the FROM clause. In this case you may decide to use a column-level query. I’m not arguing the rights or wrongs of column-level queries, either on performance or theoretical grounds. The problem is that if this approach is applied naively it’s a bug. Continue reading A Column-level Query No-No in SELECT statements →