Great! Thanks for the quick pointer! ken Quoting Diana Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You may use MERGE TABLES: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MERGE.html > > -- > Diana Soares > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:08, Ken Gieselman wrote: > > Heya folks -- > > > > Trying to come up with a way to count across multiple tables, and failing > > miserably. I need a simple way, preferably better than looped queries, of > > summing the number of rows in multiple tables. > > > > Example: > > > > I have multiple tables with the same column layout, due to the amount of > data > > expected to land in each one, broken up by year/month. This is simplified > > some, but should serve to illustrate the issue. > > > > create table info_2004_03 ( > > itemID integer auto_increment NOT NULL, > > eventID integer NOT NULL, > > eventName char(40), > > primary key (itemID) > > ); > > > > create table info_2004_04 ( > > itemID integer auto_increment NOT NULL, > > eventID integer NOT NULL, > > eventName char(40), > > primary key (itemID) > > ); > > > > I need to get a total number of itemIDs over all the info_ tables. I could > just > > query each of the tables individually and add the results, but looking for > a > > more graceful way of doing it, hopefully. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > ken > > > =========================================================================== > > "Diplomacy is the weapon of the Civilized Warrior" > > - Hun, A.T. > > > > Ken Gieselman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > System Administrator > http://www.endlessknot.com/~ken > > Endlessknot Communications > http://www.endlessknot.com > > > =========================================================================== > > > =========================================================================== "Diplomacy is the weapon of the Civilized Warrior" - Hun, A.T. Ken Gieselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator http://www.endlessknot.com/~ken Endlessknot Communications http://www.endlessknot.com =========================================================================== -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
