Alternative to a Union Query

[nancybrown]

Is there an alternative to a Union query that will join "all" records from two tables . . . need flexibility to update, modify, and build additional queries.

Many thanks.

 

[james_lankford]

select *
from t1
union all
select *
from t2

but they must have the same # of columns and column types

 

[nancybrown]

Thanks James . . . no other way around using a Union?

 

[nancybrown]

To further explain because I'm not always clear in what I'm trying to achieve. I need to bring in "one" column from a 2008 terms file and match by vendor ID into 2009 terms file table. I was successful in creating queries to get same terms and no change terms, but now I need all terms in one file showing before and after . . . but again, I only need to bring in one field to display side-by-side in the 2009 file. If it can't be done in Access, I suppose I can do a match statement in Excel and import it in to Access. I appreciate any suggestions

 

[james_lankford]

still not sure what you want, but this brings in one filed from the 2009 table and one from the 2008 able and displays them side by side

select 
  t9.column1,
  t8.column1
from
  2009table as t9
  left join
  2008table as t8
on
  t9.vendorID = t8.vendorID

 

[nancybrown]

That's it!!! Many thanks!!