[sql] SQL: Two select statements in one query

I want to select information from two SQL tables within one query, the information is unrelated though, so no potential joints exist.

An example could be the following setup.

tblMadrid

   id | name    | games | goals
    1 | ronaldo | 100   | 100
    2 | benzema | 50    | 25
    3 | bale    | 75    | 50
    4 | kroos   | 80    | 10

tblBarcelona

   id | name    | games | goals
    1 | neymar  | 60    | 25
    2 | messi   | 150   | 200
    3 | suarez  | 80    | 80
    4 | iniesta | 40    | 5

I want to have a query that gives me the following:

name    | games | goals
messi   | 150   | 200
ronaldo | 100   | 100

I tried to follow this logic: Multiple select statements in Single query but the following code did not work:

USE Liga_BBVA

SELECT (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblMadrid
        WHERE  name = 'ronaldo') AS table_a,
       (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblBarcelona
        WHERE  name = 'messi')   AS table_b
ORDER  BY goals 

Any advice on this one? Thanks Info: The football stuff is just a simplifying example. In reality it is not possible to put both tables into one and have a new "team" column. The two tables have completely different structures, but I need something that matches the characteristics of this example.

select name, games, goals
from tblMadrid where name = 'ronaldo'
union
select name, games, goals
from tblBarcelona where name = 'messi'
ORDER  BY goals 

The UNION statement is your friend:

SELECT   a.playername, a.games, a.goals
FROM     tblMadrid as a
WHERE    a.playername = "ronaldo"
UNION
SELECT   b.playername, b.games, b.goals
FROM     tblBarcelona as b
WHERE    b.playername = "messi"
ORDER BY goals;

Using union will help in this case.

You can also use join on a condition that always returns true and is not related to data in these tables.See below

select tmd .name,tbc.goals from tblMadrid tmd join tblBarcelona tbc on 1=1;

You can use UNION in this case

select id, name, games, goals from tblMadrid
union
select id, name, games, goals from tblBarcelona

you jsut have to maintain order of selected columns ie id, name, games, goals in both SQLs

You can combine data from the two tables, order by goals highest first and then choose the top two like this:

MySQL

select *
from (
  select * from tblMadrid
  union all
  select * from tblBarcelona
) alldata
order by goals desc
limit 0,2;

SQL Server

select top 2 *
from (
  select * from tblMadrid
  union all
  select * from tblBarcelona
) alldata
order by goals desc;

If you only want Messi and Ronaldo

select * from tblBarcelona where name = 'messi'
union all
select * from tblMadrid where name = 'ronaldo'

To ensure that messi is at the top of the result, you can do something like this:

select * from (
  select * from tblBarcelona where name = 'messi'
  union all
  select * from tblMadrid where name = 'ronaldo'
) stars
order by name;

You can union the queries as long as the columns match.

SELECT name,
       games,
       goals
FROM   tblMadrid
WHERE  id = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT name,
       games,
       goals
FROM   tblBarcelona
WHERE  id = 2 

If you like to keep records separate and not do the union.
Try query below

SELECT (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblMadrid
        WHERE  name = 'ronaldo') AS table_a,
       (SELECT name,
               games,
               goals
        FROM   tblBarcelona
        WHERE  name = 'messi')   AS table_b
FROM DUAL