On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:58:20 -0700, Captain Paralytic wrote:
> On 3 Oct, 13:18, hans christian <christ...@notmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, I am trying to come up with a way to preform the same query over
>> a list of tables; of which the tablenames are stored in a ... table.
>>
>> I have tried numerous ways but unfortunatly the column name is not
>> expanded or treated as the tablename in the outerquery. So I am trying
>> now with a subquery only to get caught in the alias mixer. For example:
>>
>> mysql> SELECT open,high,low,close FROM (SELECT tablename FROM
>> properties); ERROR 1248 (42000): Every derived table must have its own
>> alias
>>
>> Is there a way to receive the list of tablenames and preform a subquery
>> within the same select statement ?
>>
>> If so I am going to keep searching for the answer using subquery
>> otherwise I will have to come up with something else.
>>
>> Thank you for any suggestions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hans.
>
> I think you need a stored procedure
Hmmm 2 bad
Anyway thank you for your answer !
Hans.