Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Third Edition By Ronald R. Plew, Ryan K. Stephens
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Hour 15. Combining Multiple Queries into One
Be cautious when using the compound operators. Incorrect or incomplete data may be returned if you were using the INTERSECT operator and you used the wrong SELECT statement as the first individual query. In addition, consider whether duplicate records are wanted when using the UNION and UNION ALL operators. What about EXCEPT? Do you need any of the rows that were not returned by the second query? As you can see, the wrong compound query operator or the wrong order of individual queries in a compound query can easily cause misleading data to be returned.
Incomplete data returned by a query qualifies as incorrect data.
