Nonstandard operators  Negating and testing

Chapter 4: Expressions, Identifiers, and Wildcard Characters

Using any, all and in

any is used with <, >, or = and a subquery. It returns results when any value retrieved in the subquery matches the value in the where or having clause of the outer statement. For more information, see the Transact-SQL User’s Guide.

all is used with < or > and a subquery. It returns results when all values retrieved in the subquery are less than (<) or greater than (>) the value in the where or having clause of the outer statement. For more information, see the Transact-SQL User’s Guide.

in returns results when any value returned by the second expression matches the value in the first expression. The second expression must be a subquery or a list of values enclosed in parentheses. in is equivalent to = any. For more information, see where clause in Reference Manual: Commands.





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