SQL-UNION：如何按顺序对不匹配的列进行 UNION 4 SELECT

Question

SELECT 'ABC-D Header1' As Seq1
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Header2' AS seq2
UNION
SELECT  ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 ' AS seq3
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Tail' AS Seq4
ORDER BY SEQ1 ASC

 OUTPUT:  
 ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4
 ABC-D Header1
 ABC-D Header2     
 ABC-D Tail

EXPECTED RESULT :

ABC-D Header1
ABC-D Header2
ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4
ABC-D Tail

Could anyone help me how UNION works internally, I am dealing with hardcoded values, which should come in two rows ( Header1, Header2) followed by data and Tail part. I have tried ASC and DESC as well, nothing seems working in giving exact result as expected.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use VALUES with position :

SELECT t.Header
FROM ( VALUES (1, 'ABC-D Header1'), 
              (2, 'ABC-D Header2'), 
              (3, 'ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 '), 
              (4, 'ABC-D Tail'))
     ) t(Seq, Header)
ORDER BY seq;

Answer 2

add another column for the required ordering

SELECT 'ABC-D Header1' As Seq1, s = 1
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Header2' AS seq2, s = 2
UNION
SELECT  'ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 ' AS seq3, s = 3
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Tail' AS Seq4, s = 4
ORDER BY s ASC

EDIT: If you do not wish to have the s in result, use cte or derived table

; WITH CTE AS
(
    SELECT 'ABC-D Header1' As Seq1, s = 1
    UNION
    SELECT 'ABC-D Header2' AS seq2, s = 2
    UNION
    SELECT  'ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 ' AS seq3, s = 3
    UNION
    SELECT 'ABC-D Tail' AS Seq4, s = 4
)
SELECT  Seq1
FROM    CTE
ORDER BY s ASC

Answer 3

select Seq1
from
(
SELECT 'ABC-D Header1' As Seq1, number = 1
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Header2' AS seq2, number = 2
UNION
SELECT  'ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 ' AS seq3, number = 3
UNION
SELECT 'ABC-D Tail' AS Seq4, number = 4
) a 
ORDER BY number ASC

Or you can also use Desired table like this way without redundant columns

SELECT Seq1
FROM(
 VALUES
 ('ABC-D Header1'),
 ('ABC-D Header2'),
 ('ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4 '),
 ('ABC-D Tail')
)v(Seq1)

Result here

Answer 4

This is one way to do it also. With unpivot .

select seq from 
(select convert(varchar(50), 'ABC-D Header1') as seq1
        , convert(varchar(50), 'ABC-D Header2') as seq2
        , convert(varchar(50),'ABC-D data1 data2..3..data4') as seq3
        , convert(varchar(50),'ABC-D Tail') as seq4) a
unpivot (seq for seq_order in ([seq1], [seq2], [seq3], [seq4])
) as b

here is a demo

The convert was used becuase without it the error was thrown that the seq3 conflicts with the type of other columns specified in the UNPIVOT list

Result :