Learn the black technology of union all usage in MySQL 5.7 in 5 minutes

[root@HE1 ~]# MySQL -uroot -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
Server version: 5.6.25-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
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mysql> select version();
+------------+
| version() |
+------------+
| 5.6.25-log |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.26 sec)
  
mysql> explain (select id from helei order by id) union all (select id from t where id=0 order by id);
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | helei | index | NULL | idx_c1 | 4 | NULL | 5219 | Using index |
| 2 | UNION | t | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
| NULL | UNION RESULT | <union1,2> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Using temporary |
+----+--------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

[root@HE1 ~]# mysql -uroot -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 5.7.15-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
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affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
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mysql> select version();
+------------+
| version() |
+------------+
| 5.7.15-log |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec),
mysql> explain (select id from helei order by id) union all (select id from t where id=0 order by id);
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | helei | NULL | index | NULL | idx_c1 | 4 | NULL | 5212 | 100.00 | Using index |
| 2 | UNION | t | NULL | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | 100.00 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
2 rows in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

[root@HE3 ~]# /usr/local/mariadb/bin/mysql -uroot -S /tmp/mariadb.sock 
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Your MariaDB connection id is 7
Server version: 10.1.16-MariaDB MariaDB Server
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MariaDB [(none)]>
MariaDB [helei]> explain (select id from helei order by id) union all (select id from t where id=0 order by id);
+------+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+------+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | helei | index | NULL | idx_c1 | 4 | NULL | 5198 | Using index |
| 2 | UNION | t | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 1 | Using where |
+------+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)