Because the column name will be represented by whatever the FIRST select is, and in this case, that is 'top_shooter_class'. Try this:
<cfquery name="get_results" datasource="#application.dsn#"> select t.name, t.date, t.time, s.firstname, s.lastname, s.state, s.nsca, r.con, r.class, r.shot, r.broke from tournaments t, shooters s, registrations r where r.shooter_id = s.shooter_id and r.class in ('A', 'AA', 'AAA') and r.tournament_id = t.tournament_id and t.tournament_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="integer" value="#url.tournament_id#"> order by class, broke desc union all select t.name, t.date, t.time, s.firstname, s.lastname, s.state, s.nsca, r.con, r.class, r.shot, r.broke from tournaments t, shooters s, registrations r where r.shooter_id = s.shooter_id and r.class not in ('A', 'AA', 'AAA') and r.tournament_id = t.tournament_id and t.tournament_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="integer" value="#url.tournament_id#"> order by class desc, broke desc </cfquery> If that doesn't work, try some parentheses around each of the selects. If that still doesn't work, last resort you can do this: <cfquery name="get_results1" datasource="#application.dsn#"> select t.name, t.date, t.time, s.firstname, s.lastname, s.state, s.nsca, r.con, r.class, r.shot, r.broke from tournaments t, shooters s, registrations r where r.shooter_id = s.shooter_id and r.class in ('A', 'AA', 'AAA') and r.tournament_id = t.tournament_id and t.tournament_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="integer" value="#url.tournament_id#"> order by class, broke desc </cfquery> <cfquery name="get_results2" datasource="#application.dsn#"> select t.name, t.date, t.time, s.firstname, s.lastname, s.state, s.nsca, r.con, r.class, r.shot, r.broke from tournaments t, shooters s, registrations r where r.shooter_id = s.shooter_id and r.class not in ('A', 'AA', 'AAA') and r.tournament_id = t.tournament_id and t.tournament_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="integer" value="#url.tournament_id#"> order by class desc, broke desc </cfquery> <cfquery dbtype="query" name="get_results"> Select * from get_results1 Union all Select * from get_results2 </cfquery> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311614 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4