What is the difference between JOIN and UNION?

Technology CommunityCategory: SQLWhat is the difference between JOIN and UNION?
VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
  • SQL JOIN allows us to “lookup” records on other table based on the given conditions between two tables.
  • UNION operation allows us to add 2 similar data sets to create resulting data set that contains all the data from the source data sets. Union does not require any condition for joining.