Ah. I was stuck on the requirement that the two schema match, but I see your
point. I'll see if that works.
On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:11 , Dean Wampler wrote:
> Of the top of my head, I think UNION ALL should work if you explicitly
> project out the missing columns with NULL or other values, e.g. using nested
> SELECTs, something like
>
> SELECT * FROM (
> SELECT a,b,c, Y, NULL AS Z FROM table1
> UNION ALL
> SELECT a,b,c, NULL AS Y, Z FROM table2
> ) table12;
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote:
> I have two tables which have overlapping but nonidentical schema. I want to
> creating a new table that unions them, leaving nulls in any given row where a
> column name doesn't occur in the other table:
>
> SCHEMA 1: { a, b, c, Y }
> row: { 1, 2, 3, 4 }
>
> SCHEMA 2: { a, b, c, Z }
> row: { 5, 6, 7, 8 }
>
> NEW SCHEMA: { a, b, c, Y, Z }
> new row: { a:1, b:2, c:3, Y:4, Z:null }
> new row: { a:5, b:6, c:7, Y:null, Z:8 }
>
> I don't think either "full outer join" or "union all" works. I'm not sure
> how to do this. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
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