Problem:There is a table World.
+-----------------+------------+------------+--------------+---------------+
| name | continent | area | population | gdp |
+-----------------+------------+------------+--------------+---------------+
| Afghanistan | Asia | 652230 | 25500100 | 20343000 |
| Albania | Europe | 28748 | 2831741 | 12960000 |
| Algeria | Africa | 2381741 | 37100000 | 188681000 |
| Andorra | Europe | 468 | 78115 | 3712000 |
| Angola | Africa | 1246700 | 20609294 | 100990000 |
+-----------------+------------+------------+--------------+---------------+
A country is big if it has an area of bigger than 3 million square km or a population of more than 25 million.
Write a SQL solution to output big countries' name, population and area.
OR / UNION
Solution:
SELECT name, population, area FROM world WHERE area > 3000000 OR population > 25000000;
SELECT name, population, area FROM world WHERE area > 3000000
UNION
SELECT name, population, area FROM world WHERE population > 25000000;
Note: This solution runs a little bit faster than the first one. However, they do not have big difference.