On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Wright, George
<George.Wright@infimatic.com> wrote:
> Novice question:
>
> How can I apply conditional logic when doing a union of two tables?
>
> TableA TableB
> ------ ------
> value1 value2 value1 value2
> 1 10 5 15
> 11 20
>
> SELECT * FROM TableA UNION SELECT * FROM TableB;
> returns:
>
> value1 value2
> 1 10
> 5 15
> 11 20
>
>
> what I want is
>
> value1 value2
> 1 5
> 5 15
> 15 20
>
> The tables are huge and already in ascending order.
Hi, George.
What conditional logic are you trying to apply? Union will simply
take the rows from the two tables and combine them.
Sean
