ahmed
msg:1276675 | 11:26 am on Mar 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
if this is just a one off, I'd dump both tables to CSV files, then use your favourite DB front end (I like SQLYog) to import the files and remove duplicates. No point re-inventing the wheel.
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AhmedF
msg:1276676 | 1:12 pm on Mar 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
actually its not.
Has anyone tried to reinvent the wheel?
How come something a caveman made millions of years ago is still the same today? :)
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diamondgrl
msg:1276677 | 2:11 pm on Mar 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I usually work in the same table space so I'm not sure if you can join tables in two separate databases. I would think you can somehow. However, if you can't, why not simply copy the one table into the other database, do your table join procedure and then put the new table back whereever you need to?
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seindal
msg:1276678 | 4:03 pm on Mar 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
In MySQL you can join tables across databases as long as they recide on the same server. Anyway, make a new table C with the layout you want. Create a primary key or a unique index on the fields you what to match. Now INSERT IGNORE INTO C SELECT fields_from_A FROM A;
INSERT IGNORE INTO C SELECT fields_from_B FROM B; This will give precedence to records from A.
Duplicates will be removed due to the unique key and you won't get errors for key-clashes because of the IGNORE keyword. This should get you what you want. René
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AhmedF
msg:1276679 | 11:26 pm on Mar 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
hmm that is interesting, never knew that, but I dont think I can use uniques and primary to remove duplicates, I'm dealing with forum user data, so I need to compare usernames and even if some usernames are the same I also need to check if their email and password is the same before I remove a duplicate or else I'll rename it..
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