Question

I have a mysql query that uses union to join multiple queries into one result set. the query works perfectly.

When I want to use the same query to create a view I then get an error message:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'union select hulaminloadnumber2,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hul' at line 2

my query that works perfectly is:

select hulaminloadnumber1,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber1>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber2,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber2>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber3,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber3>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber4,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber4>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber5,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber5>0

my query to create the view is:

create view View_LoadvsCustomer as (
select hulaminloadnumber1,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber1>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber2,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber2>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber3,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber3>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber4,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber4>0
union
select hulaminloadnumber5,deliveryid,drop1customer from localjhb where hulaminloadnumber5>0)

this produces the below error in PHPMyadmin:

The queries are all from a badly designed table so there should be no formatting or collation issues. Can a view be created against a union query?

Any advice is appreciated.

Have a GREAT weekend,
Ryan

Answer 1

Remove the parenthesis from view definition. You have hit this server bug.