I have several tables that I want to query as if their rows were in a
single table. My thinking was to use a temporary table and execute
multiple 'select into' queries to populate it and then run a final
select against it.

E.g., given two tables:

foo ( id integer, name varchar)
bar ( id integer, name varchar, status integer)

I want a structure looks like:

some_structure (
name varchar,
status integer,
foo_name varchar,
bar_name varchar,
bar_status integer)

so I can run queries like:

select id from some_structure where name = 'Baz' or status = 1;
select id from some_structure where foo_name = 'Baz' or bar_status =
1;

Rows from table foo would NULL values for status. The underlying
applications lets users select objects (represented by id) by specifying
property name values. We validate input to ensure that an unqualified
properties (e.g. 'name', as opposed to 'bar_name') have compatible
types.

-- Garrett

Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> At 10:39 AM 12/17/2004, Garrett Smith wrote:
>
>
>> Does Firebird 1.5 support temporary tables in any way?
>
> No, but if you explain what you're trying to do, we can
> probably suggest an alternative that will work well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ann
>
>
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