append a table onto the end of another

[Jagdip Singh Ajimal]

I have two tables, appointments and backupappointments.
I also have a
function getAppointments(theDate DATE) RETURN RECORDSET
(which has not been written yet).
What I want the function to do is take a date, and return a table of
appointments on that date. My problem has two parts:

1) How do I append the table backupappointments to the table
appointments so that I can do a simple SELECT on the date of this new
table?

2) How do I return the filtered table?

Any help would be greatly appriciated

Jagdip Singh Ajimal

[Mark C. Stock]

"Jagdip Singh Ajimal" <js*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| I have two tables, appointments and backupappointments.
| I also have a
| function getAppointments(theDate DATE) RETURN RECORDSET
| (which has not been written yet).
| What I want the function to do is take a date, and return a table of
| appointments on that date. My problem has two parts:
|
| 1) How do I append the table backupappointments to the table
| appointments so that I can do a simple SELECT on the date of this new
| table?
|
| 2) How do I return the filtered table?
|
| Any help would be greatly appriciated
|
| Jagdip Singh Ajimal
lookup UNION (SQL) and REF CURSOR or pipeline functions or TABLE(CAST
(see my posts on 'example: PIPELINED function' and 'Input array string')

-- mcs

[Mark D Powell]

js*****@hotmail.com (Jagdip Singh Ajimal) wrote in message news:<c8**************************@posting.google. com>...

I have two tables, appointments and backupappointments.
I also have a
function getAppointments(theDate DATE) RETURN RECORDSET
(which has not been written yet).
What I want the function to do is take a date, and return a table of
appointments on that date. My problem has two parts:

1) How do I append the table backupappointments to the table
appointments so that I can do a simple SELECT on the date of this new
table?

2) How do I return the filtered table?

Any help would be greatly appriciated

Jagdip Singh Ajimal

If you can write a select to get the records from each table then you
can add a UNION to combine the two selects into one SQL statement,
perhaps a view. You could then query the view/UNION statement to get
your result set.

You have many options on how you return the record set depending on
what you want to do with it.

See the Concepts manual for an explantion of Views and the SQL manual
for CREATE VIEW and UNION.

HTH -- Mark D Powell --

[Seamus Ma' Cleriec]

js*****@hotmail.com (Jagdip Singh Ajimal) wrote in message news:<c8**************************@posting.google. com>...

I have two tables, appointments and backupappointments.
I also have a
function getAppointments(theDate DATE) RETURN RECORDSET
(which has not been written yet).
What I want the function to do is take a date, and return a table of
appointments on that date. My problem has two parts:

1) How do I append the table backupappointments to the table
appointments so that I can do a simple SELECT on the date of this new
table?

2) How do I return the filtered table?

Any help would be greatly appriciated

Jagdip Singh Ajimal

1) Create a view usin the UNION of both tables
2) return a "REF CURSOR"

details left as an exercise for the reader.