Re: Is there another way of looking at this query ?

As stated, the UNION clause will remove the duplicates. As such, the NOT IN clause is not necessary.

SELECT A.1, A.2
FROM A
UNION
SELECT B.1, B.2
FROM B HTH,
Brian

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