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Differences to standard SQL

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

As previously mentioned in the manual's section about the ORDER BY clause, jOOQ has slightly changed the semantics of these set operators. While in SQL, a set operation subselect may not immediately contain any ORDER BY clause or LIMIT clause (unless you wrap the subselect into a derived table), jOOQ allows you to do so. In order to select both the youngest and the oldest author from the database, you can issue the following statement with jOOQ (rendered to the MySQL dialect): 

  (SELECT * FROM AUTHOR
   ORDER BY DATE_OF_BIRTH ASC LIMIT 1)
UNION
  (SELECT * FROM AUTHOR
   ORDER BY DATE_OF_BIRTH DESC LIMIT 1)
ORDER BY 1
 
create.selectFrom(AUTHOR)
      .orderBy(AUTHOR.DATE_OF_BIRTH.asc()).limit(1)
      .union(
       selectFrom(AUTHOR)
      .orderBy(AUTHOR.DATE_OF_BIRTH.desc()).limit(1))
      .orderBy(1)
      .fetch();

In case your database doesn't support ordered UNION subselects, the subselects are nested in derived tables. 

SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT * FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY DATE_OF_BIRTH ASC LIMIT 1
)
UNION
SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT * FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY DATE_OF_BIRTH DESC LIMIT 1
)
ORDER BY 1

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

select(BOOK.ID).from(BOOK).orderBy(BOOK.ID).limit(1).union(select(AUTHOR.ID).from(AUTHOR).orderBy(AUTHOR.ID).limit(1)).orderBy(1)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, SQLDataWarehouse, Sybase

(
  SELECT TOP 1 BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
)
UNION (
  SELECT TOP 1 AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
)
ORDER BY 1

ASE, SQLServer

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT TOP 1 BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
) x
UNION 
SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT TOP 1 AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
) x
ORDER BY 1

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Exasol, HSQLDB, Hana, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Vertica, YugabyteDB

(
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
  LIMIT 1
)
UNION (
  SELECT AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  LIMIT 1
)
ORDER BY 1

BigQuery

(
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
  LIMIT 1
)
UNION DISTINCT (
  SELECT AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  LIMIT 1
)
ORDER BY 1

ClickHouse

SELECT 
  t.*
FROM (
  (
    SELECT BOOK.ID
    FROM BOOK
    ORDER BY BOOK.ID
    LIMIT 1
  )
  UNION DISTINCT (
    SELECT AUTHOR.ID
    FROM AUTHOR
    ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
    LIMIT 1
  )
) t
ORDER BY 1

DB2, Firebird, Oracle

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
  FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY
) x
UNION 
SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY
) x
ORDER BY 1

Derby, H2, MariaDB, Postgres, Trino

(
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
  FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY
)
UNION (
  SELECT AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY
)
ORDER BY 1

Informix

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
) x
UNION 
SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT *
  FROM (
    SELECT FIRST 1 AUTHOR.ID
    FROM AUTHOR
    ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  ) x
) x
ORDER BY 1

MemSQL

SELECT 
  t.*
FROM (
  (
    SELECT BOOK.ID
    FROM BOOK
    ORDER BY BOOK.ID
    LIMIT 1
  )
  UNION (
    SELECT AUTHOR.ID
    FROM AUTHOR
    ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
    LIMIT 1
  )
) t
ORDER BY 1

SQLite

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
  LIMIT 1
) x
UNION 
SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT AUTHOR.ID
  FROM AUTHOR
  ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  LIMIT 1
) x
ORDER BY 1

Teradata

(
  SELECT TOP 1 BOOK.ID
  FROM BOOK
  ORDER BY BOOK.ID
)
UNION (
  SELECT *
  FROM (
    SELECT TOP 1 AUTHOR.ID
    FROM AUTHOR
    ORDER BY AUTHOR.ID
  ) x
)
ORDER BY 1
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