Question

I have two tables a and b which has a field name in it.

I need to list the data from these two tables. I thought of using union but in the result list data from the first table appears and then followed by the second.

what i want is to order by the field name so the result should be a mixed up of two tables in the order of name that is order by name.

Answer 1

select slug, name, 1 as mt 
  from tablea 
union 
select slug, name, 0 as mt 
  from tableb 
 order 
    by name;

The above is working well for me. will there be any complications in the result of this?