Tag: UNION ALL

I recently stumbled upon a standard SQL feature that was implemented, to my surprise, in HSQLDB. The keyword is CORRESPONDING, and it can be used with all set operations, including UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT. Let's look at the sakila database. It has 3 tables with people in it: CREATE TABLE actor ( actor_id integer NOT … Continue reading A Rarely Seen, but Useful SQL Feature: CORRESPONDING →