On Thursday 12 December 2002 20:35, Mark Goodge wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone can give me some pointers on this problem. I have
> two tables that contain similar data (eg, people.employees and
> people.volunteers). I need to run a select statement to retrieve names from
> both tables, and then display the data sorted by name so that it doesn't
> matter which table it came from.
>
> For example, if people.employees contains Amy, Charles and Eric, while
> people.volunteers contains Brian, David and Fred, then the resulting output
> needs to be displayed in this order:
>
> Amy
> Brian
> Charles
> David
> Eric
> Fred
>
> I could do this by post-processing the data in the script which retrieves
> it, but I'd prefer to get it in the correct order direct from MySQL. Any
> suggestions?
You can do it with UNION in 4.0.x:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/UNION.html
or with TEMPORARY tables in 3.23.xx
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