Using Subqueries In MySQL (part 2)

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In the first part of this article, I introduced you to subqueries, one of the most powerful and useful new features in MySQL 4.1, and showed you how you can use them to filter SQL result sets. I demonstrated how subqueries can be used in both the WHERE and HAVING clause of outer SELECT queries, in combination with MySQL's other comparison and logical operators, with MySQL's aggregate functions and with the GROUP BY clause.

However, that's just the tip of the iceberg. In the concluding segment of this tutorial, I'm going to delve into the more advanced aspects of subqueries, showing you how to use them within a SELECT's query's FROM clause, with the IN operator and the EXISTS test, and in UPDATE and DELETE queries. Let's get going!

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