Martin Fahlgren <martin.fahlgren@salomon.at> wrote:

Hello!

Is there any possibility to make a query like

select * from table1, table2

without explicitly typing every column name. If table1 and table2 have columns with the same names Zope raises an exception with the message "Duplicate column names"

Two problems: * The "duplicate column names" one can be solved by aliasing the table names:: select t1.*, t2.* from table1 t1, table2 t2 The syntax for doing this varies; you may need to add an 'as' or wrap the alias in quotes. * Without specifying a join condition, this query produceds a "Cartesian explosion": if table1 and table2 each have 100 records, the result set will have 10,000 records. To avoid this, join the two tables using the common fields:: select t1.*, t2.* from table1 t1, table2 t2 where t2.foreign_key = t1.primary_key -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com