Question

I have a few tables that have similar fields but not exactly the same.

The same fields they have are description (text field) and modified (unixtime)

I would like to select the last modified items from these tables based on unixtime. I cant use UNION since the tables aren’t the same and the multiple table select times out.

I’ve been trying to look for this but no luck, either people are using JOINS or SELECT A., B. FROM table A, table B

Answer 1

How different they are? Maybe you can get the common fields out:

select t1.name1 as name from table1 union select t2.name2 as name from table2