Question

I cannot seem to get a result for the following query, the following query return NULL

query union

"SELECT isbn    

    FROM ".TBL_BOOKS." 

    WHERE rank < 200000 AND rank IS NOT NULL 
    AND lowest_new_price < amazon_new_price/100*80 
    AND amazon_new_price < 9999 
    AND ROUND((amazon_new_price/100*80) - lowest_new_price) > (lowest_new_price/100*".MARGIN.") 

UNION 

SELECT isbn 

    FROM ".TBL_BOOKS." 

    WHERE rank < 200000 AND rank IS NOT NULL 
    AND lowest_used_price < amazon_used_price/100*80 
    AND amazon_used_price < 9999 
    AND amazon_used_price < amazon_new_price 
    AND ROUND((amazon_used_price/100*80) - lowest_used_price) > (lowest_used_price/100*".MARGIN.") 

ORDER BY rank ASC";

but the two quires work fine on their own

query 1

"SELECT isbn    

    FROM ".TBL_BOOKS." 

    WHERE rank < 200000 AND rank IS NOT NULL 
    AND lowest_new_price < amazon_new_price/100*80 
    AND amazon_new_price < 9999 
    AND ROUND((amazon_new_price/100*80) - lowest_new_price) > (lowest_new_price/100*".MARGIN.") 
ORDER BY rank ASC";

query 2

"   SELECT isbn 

        FROM ".TBL_BOOKS." 

        WHERE rank < 200000 AND rank IS NOT NULL 
        AND lowest_used_price < amazon_used_price/100*80 
        AND amazon_used_price < 9999 
        AND amazon_used_price < amazon_new_price 
        AND ROUND((amazon_used_price/100*80) - lowest_used_price) > (lowest_used_price/100*".MARGIN.") 

ORDER BY rank ASC";

If I broke up the union and ran both queries separately I would have no problems, but for some reason the UNION query does not work, what could be the problem? Thanks

Answer 1

I think – when you use an ‘order by’ clause in a union – then the ‘order by’ parameter has to be one of the fields returned by the individual queries.