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  • SQL : Difference between UNION and UNION ALL

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    Both UNION and UNION ALL operators are used to combine the results of two or more SELECT statements. However the two differ as below:

    1) UNION performs a DISTINCT on the result set, removing any duplicate rows.There is a performance hit when using UNION since there is an additional effort of removing duplicates.

    Below is the syntax for using UNION.

    SELECT * FROM Table1 
   UNION
   SELECT * FROM Table2

    2) UNION ALL does not remove duplicates hence it faster than UNION.

    Below is the syntax for using UNION ALL.

    SELECT * FROM Table1
   UNION All
   SELECT * FROM Table2
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