Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/28/07 22:27

--CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes:
>>> I would like the query to return 5 results; i.e., 4 distinct and one
duplicate. <<
>
> The easy way is a UNION, based on a guess about the DDL you did bother
> to post and the uniquness of emp_id:
>
> SELECT last_name, first_name
> FROM Personnel
> WHERE emp_id IN ('009', '008', '007', '006')
> UNION
> SELECT last_name, first_name
> FROM Personnel
> WHERE emp_id = '007'

Joe, I thought you knew SQL? This query will not return the results
that Alex was asking for.

Why is left as an exercise to the reader.


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