I am using version 3.23 and dont think will be moving up to 4.0. Can i
somehow create a temporary table and add all the rows i need and do a select
query from that temp table. Neone done this before.

Thanks for ur responses and time,

Regards,
Harpreet Kaur
Software Developer
Crispin Corporations Inc.



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Adams
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 'Mysql'
Subject: Re: Alternative for UNION


Harpreet wrote:

> I had a view on sqlserver which i am trying to convert to work with mysql.
> It uses a union which i believe does not work with mysql. What is another
> alternative for union.
>
> Sql with union:
>
> select a.asset_id,a.material_id,b.material_id as parent_material_id from
> lib_asset_tbl a inner join lib_asset_tbl b on a.parent_id=b.asset_id
> union
> select asset_id,material_id,'' from lib_asset_tbl where virtual_flag='N'

MySQL 4.0 supports unions.

b.



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