Hello everyone,

I have a SQL query that I am not sure how to do.

I have two tables (tableA and tableB). They have a common field called
name. I want to do a search on both tables and find all the records from
either table where the name contains my search string.

I tried using an union, like below, but that didn't give me what I needed.
It would only return the results that matched from tableA, but no matches
from tableB.
SELECT tableA.name,tableA.id,tableA.active FROM tableA WHERE tableA.name
LIKE '%SEARCH%'
UNION
SELECT tableB.Name, tableA.id, tableA.active FROM tableB,tableA WHERE
tableB.name LIKE '%SEARCH%' AND tableA.name=tableB.name

I am not sure if I need to do a union, or use something else. Any help
with this would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Doug
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