Tabla derivada de Oracle sql - alias opcional

Solo necesita alias, cuando hace referencia a una columna que no está definida de forma única. Esto significa que la columna existe en más de una tabla/tabla derivada. Una referencia podría estar en la declaración de selección o en una unión. Si todas las columnas son únicas, entonces no necesita un alias.

Prefiero usar alias todo el tiempo para mayor claridad y porque ayuda con Intellisense en PL/SQL.

--ALIAS needed, because the 'a' column referenced is not unique
--this will throw an error
select a, a, b, c
  from (select 'A1' as a, 'B1' as b, 'C1' as c from dual),
       (select 'A2' as a from dual);
--this will not throw an error
select t1.a, t2.a, b,c
  from (select 'A1' as a, 'B1' as b, 'C1' as c from dual) t1,
       (select 'A2' as a from dual) t2;
;

--ALIAS not needed for join, because all referenced columns are unique
select a, b, c, d, e, f
  from (select 'A' as a, 'B' as b, 'C' as c from dual)
  join (select 'D' as d, 'E' as e, 'F' as f from dual)
    on a = d;

--ALIAS needed for join, because the 'x' column referenced is not unique
--this will throw an error
select a
  from (select 'A' as a, 'B' as b, 'C' as c, 'X' as x from dual)
  join (select 'D' as d, 'E' as e, 'F' as f, 'X' as x from dual)
    on x = x;
--this will not throw an error
select a
  from (select 'A' as a, 'B' as b, 'C' as c, 'X' as x from dual) t1
  join (select 'D' as d, 'E' as e, 'F' as f, 'X' as x from dual) t2
    on t1.x = t2.x;