I'm pretty new to mysql and I have a question about trying to list all the
unique entries from two different columns in the same table. I have found
lots of examples on the mailing list archives of getting this info from one
column, but none for two.
Let's say I have a table with 10 columns and I want to list only the unique
entries that appear in the name_1 column and the name_2 column. There are
about 50 different names that should appear in either column and I want to
make sure once in a while that I don't have any typos and I'm not missing
any data in calculating info off of these names in select statements. The
names may be repeated a number of times in both columns in the table.
Ideally I'd like to set this up in a perl script as a cron job to run once
a month or something just to double check things.
Can anyone provide any pointers?
Jerry
