Question

I want to be able to extract two sets of data in one script with a total of 15 records.

In my scenario, I extract members from a certain town which for example could return 3 records, and then I want to extract the remaining 12 from that particular state.

Here is a coding sample:

SELECT MemberID, a.UserName, a.MemberDisplayName, a.NYKABizName, a.PackageType
FROM Member a
WHERE a.Claimed = 'Y'
AND a.PrCity = 'Bridgewater'
AND a.PrStateID = 36
AND a.PackageType = 'E'
ORDER BY a.MemberDisplayName

SELECT MemberID, a.UserName, a.MemberDisplayName, a.NYKABizName, a.PackageType
FROM Member a
WHERE a.Claimed = 'Y'
AND a.PrStateID = 36
AND a.PackageType = 'E'
ORDER BY a.MemberDisplayName

I dont want these two combined into one, I want a temporary virtual table where the results are stored and then the virtual table is returned once complete.

Any ideas how one can accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance,
neojakey

Answer 1

Your virtual table would look like this

CREATE VIEW view_name AS
    SELECT * FROM
    (
    SELECT MemberID, a.UserName, a.MemberDisplayName, a.NYKABizName, a.PackageType
    FROM Member a
    WHERE a.Claimed = 'Y'
    AND a.PrCity = 'Bridgewater'
    AND a.PrStateID = 36
    AND a.PackageType = 'E'
    ORDER BY a.MemberDisplayName
    ) x 
    UNION 
    (
    SELECT MemberID, a.UserName, a.MemberDisplayName, a.NYKABizName, a.PackageType
    FROM Member a
    WHERE a.Claimed = 'Y'
    AND a.PrStateID = 36
    AND a.PackageType = 'E'
    ORDER BY a.MemberDisplayName
    ) y