Question

I did my homework but couldn’t find any answer on the question below…

I’d like to create an “alphabetic index” made of the results of two (or more) tables of my MySQL-database.

TABLE 1 is “search_words”, with fields to use: id – search_word

TABLE 2 is “categories”, with fields to use: id – category_name

So what I need is an alphabetically sorted list with the results of these two tables, the mixed output of the fields “search_word” AND “category_name”, but sorted alphabetically. As they have no relationship, these tables are not joinable, I guess.

Is there a possibility or is the answer simply “No, there isn’t!”?

Thanks in advance for any reply, help or redirect to previously posted topics cocerning this issue.

Answer 1

SELECT id,search_word AS word FROM search_words
UNION
SELECT id,category_name AS word FROM categories
ORDER BY word