I think that you can do what you want with a simple union query: select * from incoming where user_id = 123 union select * from outgoing where user_id = 123 order by datetime_received, datetime_sent
hth, Arthur On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Warren Windvogel <war...@fontera.com>wrote: > Hi > > I have 2tables. 1 for incoming & the other for outgoing messages. They both > have columns for the userid & datetime_received/sent. I'd like to retrieve > all records from both tables for a specific user id & order all the records > returned by the two datetime_received/sent fields. Is this possible & if so > could someone help me out as to how I could achieve this. > > Kind regards > Warren > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=fuller.art...@gmail.com > > -- Semi-retired SQL guru, interested in interesting projects not YAFOES (yet another friendly order entry system).
