Question

I have two selects:

SELECT id FROM a -- returns 1,4,2,3
UNION
SELECT id FROM b -- returns 2,1

I’m receiving correct num of rows, like: 1,4,2,3.

But I want b table results first: 2,1,4,3 or 2,1,3,4

How can I do this?

(I’m using Oracle)

Answer 1

Using @Adrian tips, I found a solution:

I’m using GROUP BY and COUNT.
I tried to use DISTINCT with ORDER BY but I’m getting error message: “not a SELECTed expression”

select id from 
(
    SELECT id FROM a -- returns 1,4,2,3
    UNION ALL -- changed to ALL
    SELECT id FROM b -- returns 2,1
)
GROUP BY id ORDER BY count(id);

Thanks Adrian and this blog.