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How to use ORDER BY and LIMIT together with UNION

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SELECT * 
    FROM foo
UNION
SELECT *
    FROM bar

This gives me a "syntax error near UNION".

SELECT * 
    FROM foo
    ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1000
UNION
SELECT *
    FROM bar
    ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1000;

Why is that? How to UNION tables with ORDER BY and LIMIT?

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>Solution :

You need to place each half of the union into a separate subquery:

(SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 1000)
UNION ALL
(SELECT * FROM bar ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 1000);
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