I need to merge two tables:
Both have a primary key-column date, but with different values (different time intervals).
Both have different (unknown) columns: I don't know the names of the columns (same column-name may occur in both tables), I don't know how many columns, but all of the same type.
An example:
table1
date | colA | colB | colC
2011-02-02 | 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.04
table2
date | col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
2011-02-03 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 1.07 | 1.03
the result of the query should look like this:
tableResult
date | colA | colB | colC | col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
2011-02-02 | 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.04 | null | null | null | null
2011-02-03 | null | null | null | 1.03 | 1.02 | 1.07 | 1.03
This will not work:
INNER JOIN because it will only return the intersection between table1 and table2,
OUTER JOIN returns intersection + values only from left table (or right table if right join is used)
UNION because the count of columns may differ.
Any Ideas?
Christoph
解决方案
You can create a temp table with the union of just the date column, and then use the temp table to left outer join with the other 2.
Example:
DROP TABLE temptbl IF EXISTS;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temptbl (myDate DATETIME PRIMARY KEY)
AS (SELECT MyDate FROM table1)
UNION (SELECT MyDate FROM table2)
ORDER BY MyDate;
SELECT * FROM temptbl
LEFT OUTER JOIN table1 USING (MyDate)
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2 USING (MyDate);