How to join two tables together with same number of rows by their order

Question

I am using SQL2000 and I would like to join two table together based on their positions

For example consider the following 2 tables:

table1
-------
name
-         


        

Answer 1

would be best to use row_number(), but that is only for 2005 and 2008, this should work for 2000...

Try this:

create table table1 (name varchar(30))
insert into table1 (name) values ('cat')
insert into table1 (name) values ('dog')
insert into table1 (name) values ('mouse')

create table table2 (cost int)
insert into table2 (cost) values (23)
insert into table2 (cost) values (13)
insert into table2 (cost) values (25)

Select IDENTITY(int,1,1) AS RowNumber
, Name
INTO #Temp1
from table1


Select IDENTITY(int,1,1) AS RowNumber
, Cost
INTO #Temp2
from table2

select * from #Temp1
select * from #Temp2

SELECT
    t1.Name, t2.Cost
    FROM #Temp1                 t1
        LEFT OUTER JOIN #Temp2  t2 ON t1.RowNumber=t2.RowNumber
    ORDER BY t1.RowNumber