Hello I've been thinking on a potential problem I might get in a distant future, but once I started thinking on it I just as well had to check...
Is it possible to have say ~ 6 tables, where the first one is a 'reference' to all the others (they all are with the same structure). The other 5 or so have information stored in importance/access/age, where one table will be only recent/important things, the other with a bit lower priority and so on until the last table that can be really huge and slow and used more like a storage ... Is it possible to write an SQL query to let the first table figure out what table one will do the actual select from? like the pseudo code: SELECT name,content FROM <some command> (SELECT tablename FROM table1 WHERE item_id="123456") Or is this a totally pointless thing, as the first table would need to be so large either way? (or only good for storing large blobs and such?) /Frank H ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly