Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Tony Thomas
o tell which records came from which table. If that dosn't matter obviously its not a problem. - Original Message - From: "Tony Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: select data from two table

Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Haydies
PM Subject: Re: select data from two tables without join : I'm using 3.23.56, so UNION is out. MERGE looks like it might do the : trick. The tables are duplicate other than the field names. The : structure is identical. : : On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Haydies wrote: : : &g

Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Tony Thomas
I'm using 3.23.56, so UNION is out. MERGE looks like it might do the trick. The tables are duplicate other than the field names. The structure is identical. On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Haydies wrote: If the tables are the same, then maybe you could use one table with a field

Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Haydies
If the tables are the same, then maybe you could use one table with a field that tells the "application" if its a meeting or training. Other then that, UNION is very cool. As long as you have the same field definitions in 2 or more queries they can be added togeather. Unfortunatly you can do sub s

Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Egor Egorov
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 unnece

Re: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Alec . Cawley
If the tables are *identical* in structure ant are MyISAM, you can create a MERGE table from them. See http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/MERGE.html Alec - I have two tables that are similar, but not related. One is for meetings and the ot

RE: select data from two tables without join

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Greene
it depends on how you want it if you want them consecutively, you probably want to UNION two queries together, but you need to make sure that the column types are identical... i.e. select meeting_name as event_name, meet_date as event_date from meetings where meet_date >= curdate() union se