SQL- UNION ALL a large number of tables

Question

I have a large number of tables (some thousands) containing similar data. I would like to run some reports from these. The table names are similar, so I can get a list of table

Answer 1

You can do this with Dynamic SQL

Declare @SQL varchar(max) =''
Select @SQL = @SQL +'Union All Select * From '+Table_Name+' ' 
  FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
  WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE 'TableNamePrefix%'
  ORDER BY TABLE_NAME
Set @SQL = Stuff(@SQL,1,10,'')
Exec(@SQL)