Syntax options: UNION | UNION DISTINCT Merges the results of a select expression with another select expression into one result table by appending the values of columns in one table with the values of columns in other tables. The following example extracts the EMPLOYEE_ID of current employees with a salary greater than $50,000 and with a Ph.D. Duplicate rows are eliminated from the result table: SQL> SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID cont> FROM CURRENT_SALARY cont> WHERE SALARY_AMOUNT > 50000 cont> UNION cont> SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID cont> FROM DEGREES cont> WHERE DEGREE = 'PhD'; EMPLOYEE_ID 00164 00166 00168 00169 00172 00182 . . . 00418 00435 00471 38 rows selected