SQL > Advanced SQL > Union All

The purpose of the SQL UNION ALL command is to combine the results of two queries together without removing any duplicates.

Syntax

The syntax for UNION ALL is as follows:

[SQL Statement 1]
UNION ALL
[SQL Statement 2];

The columns selected in [SQL Statement 1] and [SQL Statement 2] need to be of the same data type for UNION ALL to work.

Example

We use the following tables for our example.

Table Store_Information

 Store_Name  Sales  Txn_Date 
 Los Angeles  1500  Jan-05-1999 
 San Diego  250  Jan-07-1999 
 Los Angeles  300  Jan-08-1999 
 Boston  700  Jan-08-1999 

Table Internet_Sales

 Txn_Date  Sales 
 Jan-07-1999  250 
 Jan-10-1999  535 
 Jan-11-1999  320 
 Jan-12-1999  750 

To find out all the dates where there is a sales transaction at a store as well as all the dates where there is a sale over the internet, we use the following SQL statement:

SELECT Txn_Date FROM Store_Information
UNION ALL
SELECT Txn_Date FROM Internet_Sales;

Result:

Txn_Date
Jan-05-1999
Jan-07-1999
Jan-08-1999
Jan-08-1999
Jan-07-1999
Jan-10-1999
Jan-11-1999
Jan-12-1999

UNION vs UNION ALL

UNION and UNION ALL both combine the results of two SQL queries. The difference is that, while UNION only returns distinct values, UNION ALL selects all values. If we use UNION in the above example,

SELECT Txn_Date FROM Store_Information
UNION
SELECT Txn_Date FROM Internet_Sales;

the result becomes,

Txn_Date
Jan-05-1999
Jan-07-1999
Jan-08-1999
Jan-10-1999
Jan-11-1999
Jan-12-1999

Notice that while the UNION ALL query returns "Jan-07-1999" and "Jan-08-1999" twice, the UNION query returns each value only once.

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