You can specify a correlation name following a table or a view, and you must specify a correlation name for a derived table in the FROM clause to qualify column names in other parts of the select expression. If you do not explicitly specify a correlation name, SQL implicitly specifies the table name or view name as a correlation name. The same correlation name may not be specified more than once, either explicitly or implicitly. The correlation name may also rename columns when specified with a derived table. Therefore, the number of columns in the table to the left of the correlation name must match the number of columns specified to the right of the correlation name.