Question

hey guys,
i have 3 tables in my sql server database.
1. crossarticle_article has field: Title
2. blogs_entries has field: title
3. forums_posts. has field: subject

now what i want to do is, i have a search on my website, when user enters any keyword in the searchbox and hit button, it should search for the title in all these table and should return single resultset.

how can i achieve this, i am using sql server 2008

Answer 1

Something like:

SELECT "article"                  AS type
     , crossarticle_article.id    AS id
     , crossarticle_article.Title AS title_subject
FROM crossarticle_article 
WHERE Title LIKE "%userinput%"

UNION ALL

SELECT "blog entry"               AS type
     , blogs_entries.id           AS id     
     , blogs_entries.title        AS title_subject
FROM blogs_entries
WHERE title LIKE "%userinput%"

UNION ALL 

SELECT "forum post"               AS type
     , forums_posts.id            AS id
     , forums_posts.subject       AS title_subject
FROM forums_posts
WHERE subject LIKE "%userinput%"