SQL | Union Clause
The Union Clause is used to combine two separate select statements and
produce the result set as a union of both the select statements.
NOTE:
1. The fields to be used in both the select statements must be in same
order, same number and same data type.
2. The Union clause produces distinct values in the result set, to fetch the
duplicate values too UNION ALL must be used instead of just UNION.
Basic Syntax:
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table1 UNION SELECT column_name(s) FROM
table2;
Resultant set consists of distinct values.
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table1 UNION ALL SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table2;
Resultant set consists of duplicate values too.
Queries
To fetch distinct ROLL_NO from Student and Student_Details table.
SELECT ROLL_NO FROM Student UNION SELECT ROLL_NO FROM
Student_Details;
Output:
R
O
L
L
_
N
O
To fetch ROLL_NO from Student and Student_Details table including
duplicate values.
SELECT ROLL_NO FROM Student UNION ALL SELECT ROLL_NO FROM
Student_Details;
Output:
R
O
L
L
_
N
O
R
O
L
L
_
N
O
To fetch ROLL_NO , NAME from Student table WHERE ROLL_NO is
greater than 3 and ROLL_NO , Branch from Student_Details table
WHERE ROLL_NO is less than 3 , including duplicate values and finally
sorting the data by ROLL_NO.
SELECT ROLL_NO,NAME FROM Student WHERE ROLL_NO>3
UNION ALL
SELECT ROLL_NO,Branch FROM Student_Details WHERE ROLL_NO<3
ORDER BY 1;
Note:The column names in both the select statements can be
different but the
data type must be same.And in the result set the name of column
used in the first
select statement will appear.
Output:
ROLL_NONAME
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