Does your database support views/materialized views?
Anthony
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:48:26 AM UTC-4, George D Elig wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot combine the two tables. The existing product uses
> one of them extensively for queue processing and I don't want to possibly
> break any of that functionality. All I want to do is update the SQLFORM
> with information from the new table. I can use db.executesql but won't that
> require me to remove SQLFORM? If so, is there another framework element I
> can leverage for displaying the rows?
>
> On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 8:14:05 PM UTC-4, Alfonso Serra wrote:
>>
>> You can try:
>> sql = """
>> SELECT * FROM table1
>> UNION SELECT * FROM table2"""
>>
>> rows = db.executesql(sql, fields = [
>> Field("name", "string")
>> , Field("age", "integer")
>> , Field("apt_time", "datetime")
>> ])
>>
>>
>>
>> Always that both tables are the same size and types.
>> Then style your view however you like.
>>
>> It is true the table structures are not good. Theres no need for 2 tables
>> to store animals. just one with an animal type field to distinguish between
>> cats, dogs, birds, etc.
>>
>>
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