On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Martijn Tonies wrote: > > SELECT > > person.*,place.* as home_* > > FROM > > person,place > > WHERE > > person.home_id = place.id > > AND > > name = 'Joe' > > What if more of your tables have a column "name"?
then: person.*,place.* as home_*,thing.* as thing_* (etc...) > > The problem is that I don't want to have to update my queries everytime I > > add a new column, so I use table_name.* a lot. But then if I ever add a > > Really? That's stupid :-) ... Ask only for the columns you need: > the rest is increased network traffic. Well, I am using all that data in my application, but I have divided up the queries from the presentation so that I can get the data once, and display it in many ways (or the other way around -- get the data in different ways and run it through the same display engine). What I would like to do is add a new column and then be able to access that data in the display layer, without updating the query. Isn't that what the * is in sql for? I have done this in the application layer, by building a big data structure like: person->id person->name person->home->id person->home->name person->home->zip_code but that requires a lot of seperate queries, and so has a lot of overhead when you want the info for 100's of objects at a time. - Isaac -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
