Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/07/07 22:31

ZeldorBlat (zeldorblat@gmail.com) writes:
> On Jul 7, 2:59 pm, dwightarmyofchampi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> I want a SELECT ... ORDER BY ID statement that will output the
>> following data:
>>
>> ID Name
>> 001 Smith
>> 002 Jones
>> 247 Simpson
>> 856 Beckley
>>
>> How do I do this?
>
> select id, name
> from table1
> union
> select id name
> from table2
> order by id

Or:

select id, name
from table1
union ALL
select id name
from table2
order by id

By default UNION sorts out duplicates. With UNION ALL they are retained.


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