This is more of a SQL question than a MySQL question, but I'll ask here.
I have a series of tables, each with widely differing structures. Each table
has an "id" and "timestamp" field, a number of other wildly different fields,
and an identifier (name, title, owner... it's different in every table) that I
wish to display. My goal is to gather all of the information from all tables,
sort by date, and display. I cannot find any way to do this with a single
SQL call, however. My current solution is to do the following...
create table tmp (id int primary key, modified date, ident tinytext);
insert into tmp select id, timestamp, name from loc;
insert into tmp select id, timestamp, title from media;
insert into tmp select id, timestamp, owner from inventory;
...
select * from tmp order by modified;
drop table tmp;
Is there an easier/faster way?
Thanks,
Scott
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