selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread Tobias Kremer :: IT
Hi list, Assume I have various tables which all have these three fields: userid, title, date_created Now I want to create a list containing entries of all tables ordered by date_created with a single select. Is this possible or do I have to make either various selects or create an extra table

Re: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread DL Neil
Hi Tobias, Assume I have various tables which all have these three fields: userid, title, date_created Now I want to create a list containing entries of all tables ordered by date_created with a single select. Is this possible or do I have to make either various selects or create an extra

Re: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread Tobias Kremer :: IT
Hi, Thanx dn. I know how to build joined selects but the problem is that those two tables are not joinable. I don't have an entry in table 1 which references to a field in table 2. I just want to create a list of both tables ordered by date and limited to say 20 entries. At 12:22 28.01.02

RE: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread Tobias Kremer :: IT
Thanx, Roger. Harald was right: What I want to do is a UNION which is not implemented in mysql prior 4.0.0 :(( Your suggestion might work but I'm not sure if it's fast enough to be done on-the-fly (i.e. during a http user request) due to the fact that the tables are quite large and I have to

Re: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread DL Neil
Hi Tobias, Would the UNION command help? (otherwise we'd need to see the table definitions to comment) Regards, =dn - Original Message - From: Tobias Kremer :: IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 January 2002 12:34 Subject: Re: selecting over various tables Hi

Re: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread Rafal Jank
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:49:18 +0100 Harald Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tobias Kremer :: IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Thanx dn. I know how to build joined selects but the problem is that those two tables are not joinable. I don't have an entry in

Re: selecting over various tables

2002-01-28 Thread Tobias Kremer :: IT
At 15:52 28.01.02 +0100, you wrote: Your suggestion might work but I'm not sure if it's fast enough to be done on-the-fly (i.e. during a http user request) due to the fact that the tables are quite large and I have to manually join 10 tables :( I'd say that a UNION over 10 tables is a sure