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UNION vs. UNION ALL in SQL Server

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Sometimes there is a need to combine data from multiple tables or views into one comprehensive dataset. This may be for like tables within the same database or maybe there is a need to combine like data across databases or even across servers. I have read about the UNION and UNION ALL commands, but how do these work and how do they differ?

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Union Forcing Distinct

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The use of union would seem to force a distinct in each of the select statements being unioned. The use multiple unions, with mixed union and union all clauses, seems to cause haphazard results.

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2013-05-14 (first published: )

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Getting the TEXTSIZE

How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:

SET TEXTSIZE 8096
But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this?

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