Using Subqueries to Check for the Existence of Matches between two tables : Subquery « Subquery « SQL Server / T-SQL Tutorial






3>
4> CREATE TABLE employee(
5>    id          INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
6>    first_name  VARCHAR(10),
7>    last_name   VARCHAR(10),
8>    salary      DECIMAL(10,2),
9>    start_Date  DATETIME,
10>    region      VARCHAR(10),
11>    city        VARCHAR(20)
12> );
13> GO
1> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (1, 'Jason' ,  'Martin', 5890,'2005-03-22','North','Vancouver');
2> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (2, 'Alison',  'Mathews',4789,'2003-07-21','South','Utown');
3> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (3, 'James' ,  'Smith',  6678,'2001-12-01','North','Paris');
4> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (4, 'Celia' ,  'Rice',   5567,'2006-03-03','South','London');
5> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (5, 'Robert',  'Black',  4467,'2004-07-02','East','Newton');
6> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (6, 'Linda' ,  'Green' , 6456,'2002-05-19','East','Calgary');
7> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (7, 'David' ,  'Larry',  5345,'2008-03-18','West','New York');
8> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (8, 'James' ,  'Cat',    4234,'2007-07-17','West','Regina');
9> INSERT INTO employee VALUES (9, 'Joan'  ,  'Act',    6123,'2001-04-16','North','Toronto');
10> GO

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1> select * from employee;
2> GO
id          first_name last_name  salary       start_Date              region     city
----------- ---------- ---------- ------------ ----------------------- ---------- --------------------
          1 Jason      Martin          5890.00 2005-03-22 00:00:00.000 North      Vancouver
          2 Alison     Mathews         4789.00 2003-07-21 00:00:00.000 South      Utown
          3 James      Smith           6678.00 2001-12-01 00:00:00.000 North      Paris
          4 Celia      Rice            5567.00 2006-03-03 00:00:00.000 South      London
          5 Robert     Black           4467.00 2004-07-02 00:00:00.000 East       Newton
          6 Linda      Green           6456.00 2002-05-19 00:00:00.000 East       Calgary
          7 David      Larry           5345.00 2008-03-18 00:00:00.000 West       New York
          8 James      Cat             4234.00 2007-07-17 00:00:00.000 West       Regina
          9 Joan       Act             6123.00 2001-04-16 00:00:00.000 North      Toronto

(9 rows affected)
1>
2> CREATE TABLE title(
3>    id  INTEGER,
4>    job_title VARCHAR(20)
5> );
6> GO
1> INSERT INTO title VALUES (1, 'developer');
2> INSERT INTO title VALUES (1, 'manager');
3> INSERT INTO title VALUES (2, 'tester');
4> INSERT INTO title VALUES (2, 'programmer');
5> INSERT INTO title VALUES (3, 'boss');
6> INSERT INTO title VALUES (4, 'sales');
7> INSERT INTO title VALUES (5, 'market');
8> INSERT INTO title VALUES (6, 'coder');
9> INSERT INTO title VALUES (7, 'tester');
10> INSERT INTO title VALUES (8, 'developer');
11> INSERT INTO title VALUES (9, 'manager');
12> GO

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1>
2>
3> SELECT ID, first_name
4> FROM employee
5> WHERE id IN
6> (SELECT id
7> FROM title)
8>
9>
10>
11> drop table employee;
12> drop table title;
13> GO
ID          first_name
----------- ----------
          1 Jason
          2 Alison
          3 James
          4 Celia
          5 Robert
          6 Linda
          7 David
          8 James
          9 Joan

(9 rows affected)
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8.1.Subquery
8.1.1.Building a Nested Subquery
8.1.2.Using Subqueries to Check for the Existence of Matches
8.1.3.Using Subqueries to Check for the Existence of Matches between two tables
8.1.4.Subqueries are SELECT statements that are nested within another T-SQL statement.
8.1.5.Subqueries and Comparison Operators: =
8.1.6.A subquery can be used with other comparison operators: <
8.1.7.Subqueries and IN Operator
8.1.8.A query that uses three subqueries
8.1.9.Doing calculation with subquery
8.1.10.Subqueries can be nested.
8.1.11.ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM Title)
8.1.12.Delete with subquery
8.1.13.Join and sub query
8.1.14.Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
8.1.15.subquery with >=
8.1.16.<> ALL with subquery