Re: Select mytable name from mytable? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Select mytable name from mytable?
From: Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:02:16 -0700
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David FOXWELL wrote:

I'm running a complicated query on two tables with UNION all and I'd like the table names to show up in the result to compare them. Is it possible to have the name of the table show up in a select?
I don't want to hard code the name as I must save this query for use in a year's time. The table names change each year.

I'd just do what you thought of doing, but instead of hard-coding the file name, just use the literals "TY" and "LY", or something equivalent.

Bill

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