SQL- UNION ALL a large number of tables

Question

I have a large number of tables (some thousands) containing similar data. I would like to run some reports from these. The table names are similar, so I can get a list of table

Answer 1

select 'select * from  '+TABLE_NAME +' union all'
FROM
 INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE '%chd%'
ORDER BY TABLE_NAME

remove last union all