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AskSQLTeam
Ask SQLTeam Question
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Posted - 2002-03-08 : 10:15:47
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| Luis writes "I am trying to design an ASP page that allows the user to input one parameter to search on but gets results from multiple tables.Example: Search for Smith on Hourly Employee table, Management table & Contractor Table" |
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yakoo
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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Posted - 2002-03-08 : 10:43:35
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| depends what values you want to return.If the values would be the same type from each table, such as id (int) table (varchar) and desc (varchar) then use the UNION statement in SQL. do a search in BOL for more details |
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setbasedisthetruepath
Used SQL Salesman
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Posted - 2002-03-08 : 11:27:36
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| I would expand on yakoo's suggestion of the union approach by wrapping such a select statement within a view. It's advantageous in terms of flexibility, maintenance, etc. |
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