Question

How to select newest record from two tables using SQL?

"select * from Table1,Table2 WHERE Date=(SELECT MAX(Date) FROM Table1,Table2)"

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|   table1  |  |   table2    |
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|   title   |  |   title     |
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|   text    |  |   text      |
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|   date    |  |   date      |
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Answer 1

This will do it:

SELECT TOP 1 * FROM 
(
    SELECT * FROM Table_1
    UNION ALL
    SELECT * FROM Table_2
) 
AS ALL_RECORDS
ORDER BY Date DESC