Creating MySQL View using UNION

Question

I am trying to create a view for the following query.

SELECT DISTINCT
  products.pid        AS id,
  products.pname      AS name,
  products.p_desc     AS descri         


        

Answer 1

Just a little remark about UNION. UNION only returns the distinct values of your resultset. So there is no need to use SELECT DISTINCT combined with a UNION. Probably better for performance to not use DISTINCT too.

More info on UNION can be found here: SQL UNION Operator