Posted by Graham Cossey on 02/02/05 16:50

You don't say how many tables you have, how they are named or anything
outside of the query itself.

Assuming that not all your tables are named PID_* how about simply doing

SHOW TABLES LIKE '%PID_%'

and selecting appropriate results within the php script using strstr
or regular expressions? SHOW TABLES is (normally) such a quick query
returning a larger result set shouldn't be too much of a problem,
should it?

HTH

Graham

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:15:38 +0100, Marek Kilimajer <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote:
> Shaun wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Thanks for your replies but neither UNION or REGEXP can be used with SHOW
> > TABLES...
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> It's time to change your table design. Use one pid table and add another
> column that would hold the number.
>
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