Retrieving info from 2 tbls ordering it

2009-09-23 Thread Warren Windvogel
Hi I have 2tables. 1 for incoming the other for outgoing messages. They both have columns for the userid datetime_received/sent. I'd like to retrieve all records from both tables for a specific user id order all the records returned by the two datetime_received/sent fields. Is this

Re: Retrieving info from 2 tbls ordering it

2009-09-23 Thread Arthur Fuller
I think that you can do what you want with a simple union query: select * from incoming where user_id = 123 union select * from outgoing where user_id = 123 order by datetime_received, datetime_sent hth, Arthur On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Warren Windvogel war...@fontera.comwrote: Hi I

RE: Retrieving info from 2 tbls ordering it

2009-09-23 Thread John
: 23 September 2009 15:42 To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Retrieving info from 2 tbls ordering it I think that you can do what you want with a simple union query: select * from incoming where user_id = 123 union select * from outgoing where user_id = 123 order by datetime_received