Stick two tables together - sql

Question

Let's consider two tables:
First:
Id Data
1 asd
2 buu
And Second:
UPD:
Id Data
10 ffu
11 fffuuu
10001 asd
I want to get a 4-column table looking like this:
Id1 Data1 Id2 Data2
1 asd 10 fuu
2 buu 11 fffuuu
-1 [any text] 10001 asd
(if the numbers of rows are not equal ,let's use "-1" for the id)
How to do this?
I'm using sqlite3-3.7.3.
UPD2:
There is no matching criteria between tables,any random matching between them will be sufficient for me.

Answer 1

Assuming that the id columns are unique and not null, you can "zip" your tables by:
Creating a row number for each row that corresponds to the
position of the row when the table is ordered by the unique id (as
polishchuk mentioned in his comment); and,
Simulating a FULL OUTER JOIN with 2 LEFT OUTER JOINS.
To demonstrate, I used two tables with differing row counts:
CREATE TABLE foo (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, data TEXT);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'a');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'b');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'c');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'd');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'e');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'f');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'g');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'h');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'i');
INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, 'j');
DELETE FROM foo WHERE data IN ('b', 'd', 'f', 'i');
CREATE TABLE bar (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, data TEXT);
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'a');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'b');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'c');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'd');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'e');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'f');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'g');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'h');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'i');
INSERT INTO bar VALUES (NULL, 'j');
DELETE FROM bar WHERE data IN ('a', 'b');
To obtain a more readable output, I then ran:
.headers on
.mode column
Then you can execute this SQL statement:
SELECT COALESCE(id1, -1) AS id1, data1,
COALESCE(id2, -1) as id2, data2
FROM (
SELECT ltable.rnum AS rnum,
ltable.id AS id1, ltable.data AS data1,
rtable.id AS id2, rtable.data AS data2
FROM
(SElECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM foo
WHERE id <= T1.id) rnum, id, data FROM foo T1
) ltable
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SElECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bar
WHERE id <= T1.id) rnum, id, data FROM bar T1
) rtable
ON ltable.rnum=rtable.rnum
UNION
SELECT rtable.rnum AS rnum,
ltable.id AS id1, ltable.data AS data1,
rtable.id AS id2, rtable.data AS data2
FROM
(SElECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bar
WHERE id <= T1.id) rnum, id, data FROM bar T1
) rtable
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SElECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM foo
WHERE id <= T1.id) rnum, id, data FROM foo T1
) ltable
ON ltable.rnum=rtable.rnum)
ORDER BY rnum
Which gives you:
id1 data1 id2 data2
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
1 a 3 c
3 c 4 d
5 e 5 e
7 g 6 f
8 h 7 g
10 j 8 h
-1 9 i
-1 10 j
This works "both ways", for example, if you invert the two tables (foo and bar), you get:
id1 data1 id2 data2
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
3 c 1 a
4 d 3 c
5 e 5 e
6 f 7 g
7 g 8 h
8 h 10 j
9 i -1
10 j -1