Each table (table1 & table2) has its own DATETIME field.
I'm trying to catch id's of the two tables and order them by their DATETIME field.
Example:
Table 1 Table 2
------------ -------------
id | datetime1 id | table1id | datetime2
------------------------ -----------------------
1 | 2014-09-21 20:31:26 1 | 2 | 2014-09-21 20:31:29
2 | 2014-09-21 20:31:27 2 | 3 | 2014-09-21 20:31:30
3 | 2014-09-21 20:31:28
Table 3
------------
id | user
------------------------
2 | phil
3 | nathalie
My output isn't ordered properly with this query:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
1 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetime1,
table2.datetime2
table3.user
FROM Table1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
LEFT OUTER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
UNION ALL
SELECT
2 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetime1,
table2.datetime2
table3.user
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
INNER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
) AS query
ORDER BY table1.datetime1 DESC, table2.datetime2 DESC
Desired data:
from table 2 id: 2, 1,
from table 1 id: 3, 2, 1
So: 2, 1, 3, 2, 1
EDIT
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EDIT
解决方案
What you really need to do is to consider your schema more carefully. Consider naming the date time columns the same and then running a query like this - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/a3b4c/7/0
SELECT selection, id, datetimefoo, user FROM (
SELECT
1 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetimefoo,
table3.user
FROM table1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
LEFT OUTER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
UNION
SELECT
2 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetimefoo,
table3.user
FROM table1
INNER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
INNER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
) AS T2
ORDER BY datetimefoo DESC
In the SQL fiddle this produces the results closer to what you're looking for. I am still not sure why you need the INNER JOINS on the second query though - there is nothing that you're doing here whcih requires them.
Here is another method that does not require a changing of the column names, but requires an alias for the sortable columns - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/ec4bc/3/0
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT
1 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetimefoo AS sort_date, -- alias on first table's date
table2.datetimebar,
table3.user
FROM table1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
LEFT OUTER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
UNION
SELECT
2 AS selection,
table1.id, table1.datetimefoo,
table2.datetimebar AS sort_date, -- alias on second table's date
table3.user
FROM table1
INNER JOIN table2
ON table1.id = table2.table1id
INNER JOIN table3
ON table1.id = table3.id
) AS T2
ORDER BY sort_date DESC