SQL: Combine Select count(*) from multiple tables

Question

How do you combine multiple select count(*) from different table into one return?

I have a similar sitiuation as this post

but I want one return.

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Answer 1

You can combine your counts like you were doing before, but then you could sum them all up a number of ways, one of which is shown below:

SELECT SUM(A) 
FROM
(
    SELECT 1 AS A
    UNION ALL 
    SELECT 1 AS A
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 1 AS A
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 1 AS A
) AS B