Re: [PHP] Decide witch table within a union

At 10/29/2006 08:04 PM, Ed Lazor wrote:

That seems unreasonably harsh.

I can see what you mean, but don't take it that way. I was trying to
help.

Sorry, Ed, I had intended my reply to be friendly as well. I'm allergic to smiley-face icons, but I should have tried harder to convey my tone. Dang this poker-faced email!


What in your view is wrong with a union query that preserves an
indicator of which component table a particular record comes from?

Read earlier in the thread. He's talking about adding a field to the
table and that the value of this field in every single record will be
the name of the table the record belongs to. I said I would
definitely not recommend doing that.

Me neither. You're right. I was only referencing his next email in which he said,
Would you suggest to use a extra field to hold the table name as default?
which I thought was a great idea, but only because I thought he meant the query.

Warm regards,
Paul .