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Create a table with all permutations of two source tables 1

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BobRodes

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May 28, 2003
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I'm kind of at a loss as to how to formulate my question. Suppose I have two tables, temp0 and temp1. Temp0 contains a set of keys, and temp1 another, so:

Temp0
1
2
3

Temp1
a
b
c

I'm trying to work out a select that would result in this in a new table:

Temp2
key0 key1
1 a
1 b
1 c
2 a
2 b
2 c
3 a
3 b
3 c

I can't seem to work out how. I've tried using MERGE but can't quite set it up, as well as various other experiments. I could use a cursor but I just have the feeing there's a purely set-based solution that's eluding me. Is there?

TIA

An unforeseen consequence of the information revolution has been the exponential propagation of human error.
 
That was precisely the solution. Thanks imex! I knew there was something simple that would solve this, never used cross joins before.

An unforeseen consequence of the information revolution has been the exponential propagation of human error.
 

Try this


Select two.t0key, one.t1key
From(
Select t1key
From(
Select 'a' t1key
UNION
Select 'b' t1key
UNION
Select 'c' t1key) Temp0) one CROSS JOIN(



Select t0key
From(
Select 1 t0key
UNION
Select 2 t0key
UNION
Select 3 t0key) Temp1) TWO
 
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