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Rookie Oracle SQL question

  • 11-10-2006 8:58am
    #1
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭


    This is a tricky one to explain, so bear with me.

    I have two queries, A an B, both looking for the same data, under different conditions (so they have common columns). A is horrendous, B is relatively straight forward.

    What I want to do is combine the two of them into the one query, I was trying the following:

    SELECT * FROM

    ( <query A>) A,
    ( <query B>) B

    but what I am getting is the two result sets AND'ed together (as you would expect):

    A row 1 B row 1
    A row 2 B row 1
    ...
    A row n B row 1
    A row 1 B row 2
    A row 2 B row 2

    When in fact I want,

    A row 1
    A row 2
    ...
    A row n
    B row 1
    B row 2

    Am I completely off the mark on this one? Or is it staring me straight in the face?


Comments

  • #2
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    select ** query A **
    UNION
    select ** query B **


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    FFS, I didn't think it would be that easy. :)

    I have a tendancy to over-complicate things.

    Edit: Forgot to say thank you.


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