Column aliasing in mysql not working

[Cantor, Scott]

>     While trying to create a quite complex query to form an attribute for
> the Talis Aspire Reading lists we made the discovery that while column
> aliasing works in Microsoft SQL Server, it does not in mysql.

It does, which I can confirm since I'm using it. It is in any event a driver matter if you're using the SQL statement to do it, and not the column renaming the IdP does natively.

-- Scott