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Syntax:
{{{
select_statement UNION ALL select_statement UNION ALL select_statement ...
}}}

UNION is used to combine the result from multiple SELECT statements into a 
single result set. We currently only support UNION ALL (bag union) i.e. 
duplicates are not eliminated. The number and names of columns returned by each 
select_statement has to be the same. Otherwise, a schema error is thrown.

If some additional processing has to be done on the result of the UNION, the 
entire statement expression can be embedded in a FROM clause like below:
{{{
SELECT *
FROM (
  select_statement
  UNION ALL
  select_statement
) unionResult
}}}


For example, if we suppose there are two different tables that track which user 
has published a video and which user has published a comment, the following 
query joins the results of a union all with the user table to create a single 
annotated stream for all the video publishing and comment publishing events:
{{{
    SELECT u.id, actions.date
    FROM (
        SELECT av.uid AS uid 
        FROM action_video av 
        WHERE av.date = '2008-06-03' 
        UNION ALL 
        SELECT ac.uid AS uid 
        FROM action_comment ac 
        WHERE ac.date = '2008-06-03' 
     ) actions JOIN users u ON (u.id = actions.uid) 
}}}

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