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## Which table do rows come from when using merge?[​](#which-table-merge "Direct link to Which table do rows come from when using merge?")

What if we want to know which table rows come from?
We can use the `_table` virtual column to do this, as shown in the following query:

```
SELECT _table, loser_name, score, winner_seed
FROM merge('atp_matches*')
WHERE winner_name = 'John McEnroe'
AND loser_seed = 1
AND multiIf(
  variantType(winner_seed) = 'UInt8', variantElement(winner_seed, 'UInt8') >= 3,
  variantType(winner_seed) = 'UInt16', variantElement(winner_seed, 'UInt16') >= 3,
  variantElement(winner_seed, 'String')::UInt16 >= 3
);
```

```
┌─_table────────────┬─loser_name────┬─score─────────┬─winner_seed─┐
│ atp_matches_1970s │ Bjorn Borg    │ ['6-3','6-4'] │ 3           │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ Stefan Edberg │ ['6-2','6-3'] │ 6           │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ Stefan Edberg │ ['7-6','6-2'] │ 4           │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ Stefan Edberg │ ['6-2','6-2'] │ 7           │
└───────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────┘
```

We could also use this virtual column as part of a query to count the values for the `walkover` column:

```
SELECT _table, walkover, count()
FROM merge('atp_matches*')
GROUP BY ALL
ORDER BY _table;
```

```
┌─_table────────────┬─walkover─┬─count()─┐
│ atp_matches_1960s │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │    7542 │
│ atp_matches_1970s │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │   39165 │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ     │   36233 │
│ atp_matches_1990s │ true     │     128 │
│ atp_matches_1990s │ false    │   37022 │
└───────────────────┴──────────┴─────────┘
```

We can see that the `walkover` column is `NULL` for everything except `atp_matches_1990s`.
We'll need to update our query to check whether the `score` column contains the string `W/O` if the `walkover` column is `NULL`:

```
SELECT _table,
   multiIf(
     walkover IS NOT NULL,
     walkover,
     variantType(score) = 'Array(String)',
     toBool(arrayExists(
        x -> position(x, 'W/O') > 0,
        variantElement(score, 'Array(String)')
     )),
     variantElement(score, 'String') LIKE '%W/O%'
   ),
   count()
FROM merge('atp_matches*')
GROUP BY ALL
ORDER BY _table;
```

If the underlying type of `score` is `Array(String)` we have to go over the array and look for `W/O`, whereas if it has a type of `String` we can just search for `W/O` in the string.

```
┌─_table────────────┬─multiIf(isNo⋯, '%W/O%'))─┬─count()─┐
│ atp_matches_1960s │ true                     │     242 │
│ atp_matches_1960s │ false                    │    7300 │
│ atp_matches_1970s │ true                     │     422 │
│ atp_matches_1970s │ false                    │   38743 │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ true                     │      92 │
│ atp_matches_1980s │ false                    │   36141 │
│ atp_matches_1990s │ true                     │     128 │
│ atp_matches_1990s │ false                    │   37022 │
└───────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────┘
```

- [Setup tables](#setup-tables)- [Schema of multiple tables](#schema-multiple-tables)- [Querying multiple tables with merge](#querying-multiple-tables)- [Which table do rows come from when using merge?](#which-table-merge)

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