SQL extend a Recordset / VBA DAO etc.

Sometimes you will get a problem if you want to add a data entry to a recordset, it can be done without the need of inserting the data entry to the table.

It is a little bit tricky but with a union statement you can do following:

your normal statement looks like:

select Field1,Field2 from tableName;

 

and if you want to add an entry without insert then you can union like:

select Field1,Field2 from tableName union select '*' as Field1, 'All' as Field2 from tableName;