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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tim Lynch wrote: > First, sorry for the OT, flame me off-list! > > I'm a sysadmin being impressed into dba service. i've been getting along > pretty well writing queries and making reports, but i've got some questions. > suggestions for a good list/forum for help? > > from two tables both with email_addr columns, i want a distinct list of all > email_addrs in one column. what i do now is select distinct on each and then > sort -u the results. > > thanks in advance > -t > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly