Re: Selecting from two unrelated tables

You can use an union if the column types match

{...off the top of my head...}

select id, title, added as sortcol from table1
union
select id, headline, datetime as sortcol from table2
order by sortcol
limit 25;

John

CSN wrote:
> I have two tables:
>
> items: id, title, added, ...
> news: id, headline, datetime, ...
>
> I'd like to select the latest 25 combined records from both tables. Is there a way to do this
> using just select?
>
> Thanks,
> csn
>
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