Re: DB question - Merging data from one table to another.

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, malia, sean wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'll throw it by you anyway.
>
> Say I have 2 tables:
>
> Table1: With columns number and name
>
> 1.1 test1
> 1.2 test2
> 1.3 test3
> 1.4 test4
>
> Table2: With column number and results
>
> 1.1 pass
> 1.2 fail
> 1.3 pass
> 1.4 fail
>
> What I would like to do is add a new column to Table2 called name and
> populate the name from table 1 and add it to table 2. So, table 2 will look
> like:
>
> 1.1 pass test1
> 1.2 fail test2
> 1.3 pass test3
> 1.4 fail test4

You may want to consider using a view to do this, especially if you don't
have a 1:1 correspondence. I.e. there are a lot of entries in table2 for
1.1 etc...

create view bigview as
select *
from table2 t2
join
table1 t1
on
(t2.number=t1.number);