From: Martijn Tonies
Date: August 1 2008 12:34pm
Subject: Re: Table aliasing
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Hello Richard,

> Is there a way in MySQL to define an alias for a table, so in effect
> it has two names? For migration purposes.

No, it does not support aliasses.

But I think you could use the "merge storage engine" to do pretty
much the same, have a look here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/merge-storage-engine.html


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