David Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, this won't work. Here's an example of my tables:
Table1
1, 12, A
2, 16, B
8, 6, A
19, 9, C

Table2
1, 13, D
2, 16, B
8, 6, B
12, 5, A

select * from table1
union
select table2.* from table2 left join table1 on table2.a=table1.a and
table2.b=table1.b where table2.a is null;

(Written in gmail, but you should get the basic idea.)
Thanks, but that didn't work. That selected only the records from table1. However, this did work:
CREATE TABLE table3 AS
  SELECT * FROM table1;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX table3_pk ON table3  (a, b);

INSERT INTO table3 SELECT * FROM table2
  WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT a, b FROM table1 t1
     WHERE table2.a=t1.a AND table2.b=t1.b);


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