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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition

by Ben Forta
October 2012
Beginner
288 pages
4h 37m
English
Sams
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Lesson 11. Working with Subqueries

In this lesson, you’ll learn what subqueries are and how to use them.

Understanding Subqueries

SELECT statements are SQL queries. All the SELECT statements we have seen thus far are simple queries: single statements retrieving data from individual database tables.

SQL also enables you to create subqueries: queries that are embedded into other queries. Why would you want to do this? The best way to understand this concept is to look at a couple of examples.

Note: MySQL Support

If you are using MySQL, be aware that support for subqueries was introduced in version 4.1. Earlier versions of MySQL do not support subqueries. ...

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