1. How do I merge two tables in Access while removing duplicates?

ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7615587/how-do-i-merge-two-tables-in-access-while-removing-duplicates

以下是实验结果：

A UNION query returns only distinct rows. (There is also UNION ALL, but that would include duplicate rows, so you don‘t want it here.)

 1 mysql> select * from persons2;                                                  +-----------+ 2  3 | FirstName | 4  5 +-----------+ 6  7 | zelin     | 8  9 | qihao     |10 11 +-----------+12 13 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)14 15  16 17 mysql> select * from persons;18 19 +-----------+20 21 | FirstName |22 23 +-----------+24 25 | yu        |26 27 | zhixu     |28 29 | zelin     |30 31 +-----------+32 33 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)34 35  36 37 mysql> 38 39 mysql> select * from persons union select * from persons2;40 41 +-----------+42 43 | FirstName |44 45 +-----------+46 47 | yu        |48 49 | zhixu     |50 51 | zelin     |52 53 | qihao     |54 55 +-----------+56 57 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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2. Join

顺便介绍几个DB常用的merge用的语句：

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join.asp

An SQL JOIN clause is used to combine rows from two or more tables, based on a common field between them.

The most common type of join is: SQL INNER JOIN (simple join). An SQL INNER JOIN return all rows from multiple tables where the join condition is met.

Let‘s look at a selection from the "Orders" table:

Then, have a look at a selection from the "Customers" table:

Notice that the "CustomerID" column in the "Orders" table refers to the "CustomerID" in the "Customers" table. The relationship between the two tables above is the "CustomerID" column.

Then, if we run the following SQL statement (that contains an INNER JOIN):

it will produce something like this:

Different SQL JOINs

Before we continue with examples, we will list the types the different SQL JOINs you can use:

• INNER JOIN: Returns all rows when there is at least one match in BOTH tables
• LEFT JOIN: Return all rows from the left table, and the matched rows from the right table
• RIGHT JOIN: Return all rows from the right table, and the matched rows from the left table
• FULL JOIN: Return all rows when there is a match in ONE of the tables

3. Full Join

 在mysql中没有full join语句，我们需要用union:

mysql> SELECT * FROM persons LEFT JOIN persons2 ON persons.firstName=persons2.firstName UNION SELECT * FROM persons RIGHT JOIN persons2 ON persons.firstName=persons2.firstName;

+-----------+-----------+

| FirstName | FirstName |

+-----------+-----------+

| zelin     | zelin     |

| yu        | NULL      |

| zhixu     | NULL      |

| NULL      | qihao     |

+-----------+-----------+

4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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