What to do with Full Outer Join - mysql

Question

I need a Full Outer Join in mysql. I found a solution here: Full Outer Join in MySQL My problem is that t1 and t2 are subqueries themselves. So resulting query looks like a monster.
What to do in this situation? Should I use views instead of subqueries?
Edit:
I'll try to explain a bit more. I have orders and payments. One payment can cower multiple orders, and one order can be cowered by multiple payments. That is why I have tables orders, payments, and paymentitems. Each order has field company (which made this order) and manager (which accepted this order). Now I need to group orders and payments by company and manager and count money. So I want to get something like this:
company1 | managerA | 200 | 200 | 0
company1 | managerB | Null | 100 | 100
company1 | managerC | 300 | Null | -300
company2 | managerA | 150 | Null | -150
company2 | managerB | 100 | 350 | 250
The query, I managed to create:
SELECT coalesce(o.o_company, p.o_company)
, coalesce(o.o_manager, p.o_manager)
, o.orderstotal
, p.paymentstotal
, (coalesce(p.paymentstotal, 0) - coalesce(o.orderstotal, 0)) AS balance
FROM
(((/*Subquery A*/SELECT orders.o_company
, orders.o_manager
, sum(o_money) AS orderstotal
FROM
orders
WHERE
(o_date >= #startdate)
AND (o_date <= #enddate)
GROUP BY
o_company
, o_manager) AS o
LEFT JOIN (/*Subquery B*/SELECT orders.o_company
, orders.o_manager
, sum(paymentitems.p_money) AS paymentstotal
FROM
((payments
INNER JOIN paymentitems
ON payments.p_id = paymentitems.p_id)
INNER JOIN orders
ON paymentitems.p_oid = orders.o_id)
WHERE
(payments.p_date >= #startdate)
AND (payments.p_date <= #enddate)
GROUP BY
orders.o_company
, orders.o_manager) AS p
ON (o.o_company = p.o_company) and (o.o_manager = p.o_manager))
union
(/*Subquery A*/
right join /*Subquery B*/
ON (o.o_company = p.o_company) and (o.o_manager = p.o_manager)))
This is simplified version of my query. Real query is much more complex, that is why I want to keep it as simple as it can be. Maybe even split in to views, or may be there are other options I am not aware of.

Answer 1

I think the clue is in "group orders and payments by company". Break the outer join into a query on orders and another query on payments, then add up the type of money (orders or payments) for each company.

Answer 2

If you are trying to do a full outer join and the relationship is 1-1, then you can accomplish the same thing with a union and aggreagation.
Here is an example, pulling one column from two different tables:
select id, max(col1) as col1, max(col2) as col2
from ((select t1.id, t1.col1, NULL as col2
from t1
) union all
(select t23.id, NULL as col1, t2.col2
from t2
)
) t
group by id