Assign the variable based on the input

• yuvipoy

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  January 29, 2013 at 11:34 pm

  #268032

  hi,

  I am having a requirement like this

  say if two table name is the input

  i will take 2 tables and need to create a view

  there may be common columns in the table ,so i need to assign the table name as "Table_1 as a"

  "Table_2 as b"

  i want to assign the alias name to the table.

  there may be 5 tables or even 10 tables so accordingly i need to assign the variable

  Thanks!

• Orlando Colamatteo

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  January 31, 2013 at 5:59 am

  #1582927

  yuvipoy (1/29/2013)

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  hi,

  I am having a requirement like this

  say if two table name is the input

  i will take 2 tables and need to create a view

  there may be common columns in the table ,so i need to assign the table name as "Table_1 as a"

  "Table_2 as b"

  i want to assign the alias name to the table.

  there may be 5 tables or even 10 tables so accordingly i need to assign the variable

  Thanks!

  It sounds like you are trying to create a new VIEW on-the-fly using table names that are passed in by an application. Can you clarify the requirement, maybe show an example?

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• Sean Lange

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  January 31, 2013 at 9:06 am

  #1583056

  The dynamic naming is quite simple for something like this. The challenge is in how to join the tables. It can be done if you have foreign keys setup but let's face it that is not always the case. This is not generally a good idea due to the complexities you are going to face here. This has the sound of a user defined search type of thing?

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