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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