Hey, thanks - nice to learn something.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:57:14 -0500,
> Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
> > I'd suggest something similar to, but slightly different from, what others
> > have:
> >
> > SELECT DISTINCT email FROM (SELECT email FROM table_1 UNION SELECT
> > email FROM table_2) AS combined;
> >
> > that way you avoid duplicates across tables.
>
> The union operator already removes duplicates.
>
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