Mr. May,

        The reason you're having trouble is that the problem you've described
does not call for a union query at all.  What you want is a simple GROUP
BY query:

SELECT Node_ID, Word, Count(*) 
FROM NodeIndex
GROUP BY Node_ID, Word

-Josh Berkus

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