Union & Count Together in A SQL Query

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Today I had a situation where I needed to give a count of items that were across a couple of tables and involved a few unions in SQL.  Since my query took up about 2 pages, I figured I would make a simple version for all you folks out there reading this.  I hope it helps.

For Example, let us say you have two tables ( Results & ArchivedResults) and were needing to get a count on them both.  Let us also assume you didn't use a JOIN because of the different criteria in each SQL statement.  Based off those results you need to get a count.  Below is how this can be accomplished.

Example Code:

SELECT PullResults.Name, COUNT(*) 
FROM  (SELECT Name FROM Results
UNION ALL
SELECT Name FROM ArchivedResults) as PullResults
GROUP BY Name
ORDER BY Name

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