Hi all, I have multiple databases, both have a table called "lists" inside this table is the names of other tables in the database that make up the lists. Each individual list is made up of the tables that have the same name in each database (the list is split between different storage devices in this case). e.g.
database 1 "lists" list_1, list_2 "list_1" item_1, item_2 "list_2" item_1, item_2 database 2 "lists" list_1, list_3 "list_1" item_3, item_4 "list_3" item_1,item_2 To get an output with all the lists of both databases i can use a union command on the "lists" table: select * from database1.lists union select * from database2.lists; However if i'm not sure which approach to take to get the contents of a specific list. I'm trying to replicate this sort of statement: select * from database1.list_2 union all select * from database2.list_2; but by my scheme you can't be sure if the list_1 table exists in database2, which if i'm right will error the statement and provide no output? The other option is to run a set of statements first checking whether the table exists and keeping a record of which database does and building the statement that way, but this seems inelegant. I was hoping someone would have seen this kind of behaviour before and could point me in the right direction of a solution? All comments are welcome. Thanks, Andrew _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
