To select the contents of both into one table, you most likely want to use
the 'UNION' operator:
SELECT * FROM desktops
UNION
SELECT * FROM laptops
If you create the computers table before hand (you can see how you would
create either of the others with SHOW CREATE tablename), then you can just
Thank you Matt, I am using Mysql 3.23.58 on RH Linux 9... UNION isn't
supported on this version.
On Saturday 03 April 2004 15:20, Matt Chatterley wrote:
To select the contents of both into one table, you most likely want to use
the 'UNION' operator:
SELECT * FROM desktops
UNION
SELECT *
* Brad Tilley
create table computers
select * from desktops, laptops where
desktops.field_1 = laptops.field_1
...
Thank you Matt, I am using Mysql 3.23.58 on RH Linux 9... UNION isn't
supported on this version.
You can do it in two steps:
CREATE TABLE computers SELECT * FROM
There are two ways of handling this, the long way and the short way.
The long way is to prefix each ambiguously named column with the full table
name, as you have been doing. That *should* have worked for you since that
seems to be what you are doing in your example. Or did you literally write
