Specifies that duplicate rows should not be eliminated from the result table. By default, the UNION operator removes duplicate rows. The following example returns duplicate rows from the result table: SQL> SELECT LAST_NAME, SEX FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE LAST_NAME = 'Nash' cont> UNION ALL cont> SELECT LAST_NAME, SEX FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE LAST_NAME = 'Lapointe'; LAST_NAME SEX Nash M Nash M Lapointe F Lapointe F 4 rows selected