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I have two tables (in CartoDB/PostGIS) that are from two tiger shapefiles that have the exact same attributes, just in different counties. I want to combine them in to a single table, just appending the data from one to the other. What is the SQL call to do that?

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Presuming you have two datyasets with the same attributes:

test_points1

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and test_points2

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you can combine them like this:

CREATE TABLE combined AS( 
    SELECT id, city, geom FROM test_points1
    UNION 
    SELECT id, city, geom FROM test_points2)

and the result is the combined table:

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    The UNION keyword will check to ensure that all records are unique (which is expensive). If you don't want then de-duped in the process, use UNION ALL instead.
    – Paul Ramsey
    Feb 27, 2014 at 18:20

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