如何查询具有相同表架构的多个SQL表？

Question

I have below list of tables which is created based on weekly archive.

dbtable
dbtable_01_04_2017
dbtable_01_07_2017
dbtable_02_09_2017
dbtable_03_06_2017
dbtable_05_08_2017
dbtable_06_05_2017
dbtable_08_04_2017
dbtable_08_07_2017
dbtable_09_09_2017
dbtable_10_06_2017
dbtable_12_08_2017
dbtable_13_05_2017
dbtable_15_04_2017
dbtable_15_07_2017
dbtable_17_06_2017
dbtable_19_08_2017
dbtable_20_05_2017
dbtable_22_04_2017
dbtable_22_07_2017
dbtable_24_06_2017
dbtable_26_08_2017
dbtable_27_05_2017
dbtable_29_04_2017
dbtable_29_07_2017

All of them has the exact same column structure:

TIME_STAMP, USERNAME, INFO, CAUSE

I need to query all of them at once using the same query, of course only by changing the table name in below example query.

 SELECT * FROM dbtable WHERE USERNAME="XXXX";

I googled a bit hoping that there is a way to wildcard the name in the query but I learned that SQL doesn't support that.

Basically, I am looking for some kind of for loop to iterate the query to multiple tables.

Please note that new tables will be added each week based on our archive automation.

Answer 1

This is too long for a comment.

The problem is your data structure. Multiple tables with the same format is generally a bad idea. You should have a single table, with a column for the date.

Oh, wait, you are concerned about performance, because each of the existing tables is big. That is why (most) databases support partitioning. You can read about it in the documentation .

If you don't go down that route, one possibility is to create a view with all the tables -- and then when you add a table alter the view to include the latest table. Of course, queries will probably end up reading all the tables, so they will not be very efficient.

The right solution is to use a single table with multiple partitions.

Answer 2

您可以编写一个存储过程，查询存在哪些表并在这些表上执行SELECT 。

Answer 3

UNION ALL is the final solution.

SELECT * FROM dbtable WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_01_04_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_01_07_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_02_09_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_03_06_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_05_08_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_06_05_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable' UNION ALL 
SELECT * FROM dbtable_08_04_2017 WHERE `USERNAME` LIKE '$variable'

I was able to achieve what I need by using above SQL query.