Tony Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two tables that are similar, but not related. One is for 
> meetings and the other for training. I'd like to run a query to select 
> data from both based on the date so I can display the information on a 
> web page. Is that possible? It seems unnecessary to run a separate 
> query for each. I'd like to do something like this:
> 
> SELECT * FROM meetings, trainings
> WHERE (meet_date >= CURDATE()) AND (train_date >= CURDATE())
> ORDER BY meet_date DESC, train_date DESC;
>

It gives you Cartesian product of two tables.
 
> But this doesn't work. Is something like this possible?

Probably you need UNION:
        http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/UNION.html

> 



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