# Is there a way to get the entities with all the attributes in one query?
**URL:** https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194
**Category:** TypeQL
**Created:** [6 September 2022 18:43 UTC](https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194 "2022-09-06T18:43:13Z")
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### Author:  [@mike](https://forum.typedb.com/u/mike)
#### Post date: [6 September 2022 18:43 UTC](https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194/1 "2022-09-06T18:43:13Z")
Hey team,
I’m struggling to get all the relations with attributes and without them in one query. Now it looks like I really need two:
`match $x sub relation;` , `match $x sub relation; $x owns $attr;` and union them in the client code.
Is there an expression to do it in one query or is this a language limitation for now?
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### Author:  [@krishnan](https://forum.typedb.com/u/krishnan)
#### Post date: [6 September 2022 18:48 UTC](https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194/2 "2022-09-06T18:48:01Z")
Wouldn’t `match $x sub relation;` return both relations with and without attributes?
I’d expect:
`match $x sub relation; $x owns $attr;` to return only those with attributes.
`match $x sub relation; not {$x owns $attr;};` to return only those with attributes.
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### Author:  [@mike](https://forum.typedb.com/u/mike)
#### Post date: [7 September 2022 10:57 UTC](https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194/3 "2022-09-07T10:57:29Z")
> Wouldn’t `match $x sub relation;` return both relations with and without attributes?
Yes it would, but it won’t return any attributes at all. Speaking about union I meant that you should union list of all the relations and list of relations with attributes.
E.g.:
- rel1
- rel2
- rel3
UNION
- rel1 owns name, date
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### Author:  [@joshua](https://forum.typedb.com/u/joshua)
#### Post date: [7 September 2022 14:45 UTC](https://forum.typedb.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-entities-with-all-the-attributes-in-one-query/194/4 "2022-09-07T14:45:00Z")
Right now a `match` query always returns a “fixed size” of answers that is returned. As such, we don’t currently support returning one answer that contains a relation `$x` and another answer that contains `$x` and `$attr`…
With the proposed introduction of optionals this kind of thing will be possible: [Allow retrieving attributes optionally, without filtering the query · Issue #6322 · vaticle/typedb · GitHub](https://github.com/vaticle/typedb/issues/6322)