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UNION Two Tables and Deduplicate

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Problem

Novo Nordisk's analytics team is consolidating patient records from Wegovy and Ozempic clinical programs. Write a PostgreSQL query that combines both patient tables and removes duplicate records.

Requirements

  1. Return patient_id, patient_name, birth_date, and indication from both tables.
  2. Use UNION so identical rows are returned only once. Do not treat records with the same patient_id but different attributes as duplicates.
  3. Sort the final result by patient_id, then indication.

Schema

wegovy_program_patients
ColumnTypeDescription
patient_idINTEGERPatient identifier
patient_nameVARCHAR(100)Patient name
birth_dateDATEPatient date of birth
indicationVARCHAR(80)Clinical indication
ozempic_program_patients
ColumnTypeDescription
patient_idINTEGERPatient identifier
patient_nameVARCHAR(100)Patient name
birth_dateDATEPatient date of birth
indicationVARCHAR(80)Clinical indication
Tableswegovy_program_patientsozempic_program_patients
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