>>>>select distinct from (select T1.Fields from Table1 T1 UNION ALL Select T2.Fields from Table2 T2 etc.) X
>>>>
>>>>Or please explan in more details what exactly do you want.
>>>
>>>Thanks Naomi,
>>>
>>>Her is the statement written as you suggest.
>>>
>>>SELECT DISTINCT FROM(select Well_5.DailyRuntime, Well_5.DailyStarts, Well_5.DailyFlowrate from Well_5 union all
>>> select Well_6.DailyRuntime, Well_6.DailyStarts, Well_6.DailyFlowrate from Well_6)
>>>
>>>this returns an error 'Incorrect syntax near the keyword FROM'
>>>
>>>I have three additional tables representing other wells that have the same columns and also need to be included in this query. I also need to retrieve one of the date columns from any of the tables since they all have data for the requested date.
>>>
>>>Thanks again for your help,
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>You should alias the derived table and also you should have at least one field in field list part of the SELECT:
>>

>>SELECT DISTINCT ??????
>>       FROM (select Well_5.DailyRuntime, Well_5.DailyStarts, Well_5.DailyFlowrate from Well_5
>>             union all
>>             select Well_6.DailyRuntime, Well_6.DailyStarts, Well_6.DailyFlowrate from Well_6) Tbl1
>>

>>BTW SELECT Distinct is redundant in that case. If you use just use UNION not UNION ALL that will give you DISTINCT records
>>
>>
>>

>>select Well_5.DailyRuntime, Well_5.DailyStarts, Well_5.DailyFlowrate from Well_5
>>union
>>select Well_6.DailyRuntime, Well_6.DailyStarts, Well_6.DailyFlowrate from Well_6
>>

>
>I think I had some ideas why I wanted to use DISTINCT outside - don't remember right now. I wanted Jim to find this problem himself, but you gave it up :)

Ok, please be patient with me. The query returns three columns. What I am looking for is six columns with each row being a single day. The query also returns extraneous rows having null values in at least one column.