Hi,
i.e. you want to retrieve all the records of "john smith" from 3 or 4
tables. is it?
if so, use table alias. domainnames cannot be used directly.--try with
mysql> select * from personal p, payroll r,department d where
p.ename="johnsmith" or r.ename="johnsmith" or d.ename="johnsmith";
Thanks
ViSolve DB Team.
----- Original Message -----
From: "boll" <boll@stripped>
To: "MySQL General Mailing List" <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: select on multiple fields in several tables?
> Hello-
>
> I'm working with an unfamiliar application, trying to figure out where my
> data is going.
>
> Is it possible to form a query to select from all the columns in several
> tables at once? Something equivalent to:
> SELECT FROM * WHERE * = 'john smith'; If that's not possible I'd still
> like to be able to search each table at once without specifying the column
> names:
> SELECT FROM <table name> WHERE * = 'john smith';
> If that can't be done, can a sub query find the column names to be
> selected on?
>
> Basically, I'm trying to avoid doing separate selects on each column in
> each table.
>
> This is using MySQL 5.0.27 .
> Thanks for any suggestion or alternative methods!
>
> -John
>
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