On Fri, 14 May 2004, sad wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 19:27, you wrote:
> > sad wrote:
> > > select distinct a as F from table
> > > union
> > > select distinct b as F from table;
> >
> > Note that UNION only returns the unique values of the union
> > You can get repeated values by using UNION ALL.
>
> read the original problem
> look at the DISTINCT clause in my query
> and think again
What about the fact that union already removes duplicates?