# How original attribute ident can be gotten by its alias ident?

**URL:** <https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396>\
**Category:** Datomic Pro\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396 "2020-03-20T14:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![nikolayandr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/nikolayandr/32/375_2.png) [@nikolayandr](https://forum.datomic.com/u/nikolayandr)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396/1 "2020-03-20T14:16:23Z")

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Please suggest how I can get real attribute ident by alias ident, functions **attribute** and **ident** still return alias ident

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**Author:** ![dustingetz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/dustingetz/32/56_2.png) [@dustingetz](https://forum.datomic.com/u/dustingetz)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396/2 "2020-03-20T14:29:14Z")

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can you query the log?

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**Author:** ![nikolayandr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/nikolayandr/32/375_2.png) [@nikolayandr](https://forum.datomic.com/u/nikolayandr)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396/3 "2020-03-20T14:34:17Z")

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Nice idea, thank you

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cognitect/original/1X/3639e9022b8f8968a5ffed557ba60b311550219e.png)

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**Author:** ![nikolayandr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/nikolayandr/32/375_2.png) [@nikolayandr](https://forum.datomic.com/u/nikolayandr)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396/4 "2020-03-20T14:37:10Z")

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History works too, but I did not think that it will look like original ident is removed when alias is created

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**Author:** ![nikolayandr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/nikolayandr/32/375_2.png) [@nikolayandr](https://forum.datomic.com/u/nikolayandr)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-original-attribute-ident-can-be-gotten-by-its-alias-ident/1396/5 "2020-03-20T14:43:02Z")

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Looks like I understood how aliasing works: there is no such feature as aliasing but datomic allows to use old ident, right?