Terje Kristensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:

> In a SQL like : SELECT table1.f1,table2.f1 FROM table1,table2
> you get a listing like this.
> 
> +----+----+
> | f1 | f1 |
> +----+----+
> |  1 |  1 |
> |  1 |  2 |
> |  1 |  3 |
> +----+----+
> 
> When using the DBI function fetchrow_hashref() you get only one value since
> the key is not unique.
> Is there a way to get MySQL to return with the syntax "TABLENAME.FIELDNAME",
> and not just "FIELDNAME" ?
> I know that you can use aliases to get a similar effect but it's a hassle to
> write sql's like this :
> SELECT table1.f1 as 'table1.f1',table2.f1 as 'table2.f1' FROM table1,table2

Nope, you do it like "select table.f1 as t1f1,table2.f1 as t2f1 from table1,table2"

I tried to get it to return with tablename.fieldname, but I couldn't - I can't 
understand why you would want to, anyway.  As I recall, it also breaks the SQL-92 
standard.
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