Oracle inline view column alias only working before joining tables and not when joining to tables

Question

I have a query that looks somewhat like this:

select
  ...,
  my_view.alias_name
from
  tbl1 join
  tbl2 on
    tbl1.key = tbl2.key join
  tbl3 on
    tbl3.key = tbl3.key join
  (
    select
      ...,
      (max(...) keep (...)) alias_name
    from
      ...
  ) my_view on
    tbl3.key = my_view.key
where
  ...;

It doesn't work because the alias_name isn't set (maintaining the name (max(...) keep (...)) which I don't know if its possible to reference in the select my_view.name_or_alias) when I do it this way joining the inline view to the tables, but strangely enough it does work when I join the tables after the inline view instead.

select
  ...,
  my_view.alias_name
from
  (
    select
      ...,
      (max(...) keep (...)) alias_name
    from
      ...
  ) my_view join
  tbl3 on
    my_view.key = tbl3.key join
  tbl2 on
    tbl3.key = tbl2.key join
  tbl1 on
    tbl2.key = tbl1.key
where
  ...;

Is there any explanation or documentation that talks about this or is it undefined/random behavior? Any way to make it work with the inline view joining the tables? I couldn't find any information about this.

Answer 1

The problem wasn't with Oracle nor the query after all but actually with Microsoft Query itself which was the program that was throwing the error.

It's old and I wish I didn't had to work with it...

Both of the following simplified queries work fine on Excel VBA but the second query doesn't on MS Query.

select
  *
from
  (
    select
      'X' dummy
    from
      dual
  ) my_view join
  dual on
    my_view.dummy = dual.dummy;

select
  *
from
  dual join
  (
    select
      'X' dummy
    from
      dual
  ) my_view on
    dual.dummy = my_view.dummy;