Re: SELECT with no FROM?

Wonderful. I scoured everywhere for this in the redbook documentation and
the iSeries Information Center.

I'm on V5R4 so I'm very happy to see I can start using TABLE variables!!

RH

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On V5R4 I have

DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE TempTable

(First VARCHAR(50), Middle VARCHAR(50), Last
VARCHAR(50))
Table TEMPTABLE created in QTEMP.

INSERT INTO QTEMP/TEMPTABLE (FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST) VALUES('Foo',

'Bar', 'ForMe')
1 rows inserted in TEMPTABLE in QTEMP.

select first, middle, last from TempTable

union
select first, middle, last from employees

....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+.
...8....+....9....+...10....+...11.

FIRST MIDDLE LAST
Foo Bar ForMe
Rob O Berendt
Samwise Son of Hamfast
Gamgee
******** End of data ********


Cute way to put column headings into a output file, by the way.

Rob Berendt
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I am trying to do what I thought would be simple... MS SQL allows
selection
of hardcoded data in a "SELECT" statement without a from:
SELECT 'Foo" as First, 'Bar' as Middle, 'ForMe' as Last

You can thereby force a record to be returned with any result set:

SELECT First, Middle, Last FROM employees
UNION
SELECT 'Foo" as First, 'Bar' as Middle, 'ForMe' as Last

On MS SQL there is also a TABLE datatype...therefore a TABLE variable can
be
used.

DECLARE @TempTable TABLE (First VARCHAR(50), Middle VARCHAR(50), Last
VARCHAR(50))

INSERT INTO @TempTable VALUES('Foo', 'Bar', 'ForMe')

SELECT First, Middle, Last FROM employees
UNION
SELECT First, Middle, Last FROM @TempTable

Is there a simple way to do something similar on the 400?

I've spent an hour going through SQL reference, Stored Procedure
reference,
and SQL concepts redbooks but I haven't found anything for this.

Thanks in advance!

RH



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