Hello alan

How was that other table created?

If you're using SQL query, please note that complex queries may result in misbehavior of Filters, Search and Sorting.

Also, if you're including accent graves ( ` ) around table or column names, that can break the search as well.

Try creating a query like

SELECT * FROM myTable

Or, if the table is more complex than that, please prepare a MySQL view (a stored query), which will return the data that you need, call it e.g. “view1” and then build a wpDataTabled based on a simple query like “SELECT * FROM view1″.

Please note some this when working with the server-side processing feature:

• Please do not use “LIMIT” in the SELECT statement. wpDataTables adds it automatically and it will be overridden.
• Please do not use “ORDER BY” in the SELECT statement. wpDataTables has its own sorting engine so it makes no sense to use MySQL’s sorting, since it will be overridden. Also, server-side processing feature adds this part of statement automatically when users trigger the sorting on the front-end, and having it in initial statement may cause the table to crash.

Hi again Alan

That is correct, with views, SQL Views cannot be edited properly – only one of the underlying tables can be edited if you pass the proper ID.

I've created multiple tables with OR functions that are working fine. Are "myString!" and "myString2!" columns?