t == tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
t> Brandon Metcalf <brandon@geronimoalloys.com> writes:
t> > I tried moving the last group of WHERE, GROUP BY, and ORDER BY before
t> > the UNION with the query it belongs to, but that results in a
t> > different syntax error.
t> I think that's probably what you want to do. What you're missing is
t> you need parentheses to put an ORDER BY into an arm of a UNION:
t> (SELECT ... ORDER BY ...) UNION SELECT ...
t> Otherwise it wants to consider the ORDER BY as applying to the UNION
t> output.
Indeed. It was the fact that I was trying to move the ORDER BY along
with WHERE and GROUP BY that was giving me grief.
Thanks.
--
Brandon
