Does your database support views/materialized views? Anthony
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:48:26 AM UTC-4, George D Elig wrote: > > Unfortunately, I cannot combine the two tables. The existing product uses > one of them extensively for queue processing and I don't want to possibly > break any of that functionality. All I want to do is update the SQLFORM > with information from the new table. I can use db.executesql but won't that > require me to remove SQLFORM? If so, is there another framework element I > can leverage for displaying the rows? > > On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 8:14:05 PM UTC-4, Alfonso Serra wrote: >> >> You can try: >> sql = """ >> SELECT * FROM table1 >> UNION SELECT * FROM table2""" >> >> rows = db.executesql(sql, fields = [ >> Field("name", "string") >> , Field("age", "integer") >> , Field("apt_time", "datetime") >> ]) >> >> >> >> Always that both tables are the same size and types. >> Then style your view however you like. >> >> It is true the table structures are not good. Theres no need for 2 tables >> to store animals. just one with an animal type field to distinguish between >> cats, dogs, birds, etc. >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.