SELECT and ORDER rows from multiple tables
Posted by hardwarehank, Tue Sep 26 13:09:45 UTC 2006
Interesting problem brought up by Itosu. Basically, he had two tables, called rfs and dfs, and both of them had a column called uname. All he wanted to do was select all of rows from both tables and order them by uname. After some research, this ended up being trivial:
SELECT * FROM rfs UNION ALL SELECT * FROM dfs ORDER BY uname ASC;
The ORDER BY takes effect on the entire union if it comes at the end. This is very handy, and I have a feeling I will be referring back to it someday.
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