"Marco Bresciani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have a little problem to solve.
> I have a "List" table that lists the tables contained in the same DB. This
> table has a "Name" filed that contains such names.
>
> My problem is that the list.name filed doesn't contain the complete name of
> the tables but it misses a "prestring". Say: a table is named "FXnnnn" but
> the list.name field contains "nnnn" only.
>
> I have to create a query like:
>
> SELECT * FROM [every table in list.name] WHERE [condition]
>
> but I cannot use "SELECT Name FROM List" to gain the names of the tables
> because they all miss the "FX" string.
>
> How can I create this kind of query? Something like:
>
> SELECT * FROM ("FX" + SELECT Name FROM List) WHERE [condition]
>
You can't do it only with MySQL. Retrieve table names from List table:
SELECT CONCAT("FX", Name) FROM List;
and then use programming language to construct a query.
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