On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Bill Thoen <bthoen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, but that didn't work. That selected only the records from table1. That's why I warned you about it being written in gmail. :) select * from table1 union select table2.* from table2 left join table1 on table2.a=table1.a and table2.b=table1.b where table1.a is null; This should probably do it without the temp table (the first version was checking for null in the wrong place). -- - David T. Wilson david.t.wilson@xxxxxxxxx