on 11/20/00 3:17 PM, Peter Theobald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You could normalize your database and have all the common fields in one table
> "item".
> Only store the type specific data in the separate 'demos', 'movies', and
> 'patches' tables.
Too late for that, I'm afraid... the schema was not designed by me.
> If you can't change your schema at this point, you can select the newest 20
> items from each table into a temporary table and then select the (global)
> newest 20 from the temporary table.
Thanks, I'll try that.
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Rob Keniger
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