|  | Posted by Ed Murphy on 06/13/07 04:25 
undercups wrote:
 > The answer is to write 3 queries, 1 for each situation you describe
 > and link the output using the UNION ALL statement
 >
 > Something like
 >
 > SELECT a.id, a.col1, a.col2, a.col3, b.col4 FROM table1 a JOIN table2
 > b on a.id = b.id
 > WHERE a.col1 <> b.col1
 > UNION ALL
 (etc.)
 
 The problem is that, if the tables don't have primary keys, then they
 may not have a column like 'id'.  (Or maybe they do, and it just isn't
 defined as a primary key - in which case, why not?)
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