Re: JOIN on set of rows?

On 05/10/05 06:17 PM CDT, Peter Fein <pfein(at)pobox(dot)com> said:
> Hiya-
>
> I need to do something like this:
>
> SELECT t1.symbol AS app_name, t2.outside_key AS app_id
> FROM t2 LEFT JOIN t1 ON t1.t2_id=t2.id AS my_join
> LEFT JOIN rows of arbitrary (app_name, app_id) ON
> my_join.app_name=rows.app_name AND my_join.app_id=rows.app_id
>

The other thought was:
SELECT t1.symbol AS app_name, t2.outside_key AS app_id
FROM t2 LEFT JOIN t1 ON t1.t2_id=t2.id AS my_join
UNION SELECT rows of arbitrary (app_name, app_id)

Thanks!

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