SQL Server - ANY Keyword

The SQL Server (Transact-SQL) ANY keyword is used with WHERE and HAVING clause. It returns TRUE if any of the subquery values satisfies the condition.

Syntax

The syntax for using ANY keyword in SQL Server (Transact-SQL) is given below:

SELECT column1, column2, column3, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator ANY
(SELECT column1, column2, ... 
FROM table_name WHERE condition);

Note: The operator mentioned above must be a standard comparison operator (=, <>, !=, <, <=, > or >=).

Example:

Consider a database containing tables called Employee and Contact_Info with the following records:

EmpID	Name	City	Age	Salary
1	John	London	25	3000
2	Marry	New York	24	2750
3	Jo	Paris	27	2800
4	Kim	Amsterdam	30	3100
5	Ramesh	New Delhi	28	3000
6	Huang	Beijing	28	2800

Table 2: Contact_Info table

Phone_Number	EmpID	Address	Gender
+1-8054098000	2	Brooklyn, New York, USA	F
+33-147996101	3	Grenelle, Paris, France	M
+31-201150319	4	Geuzenveld, Amsterdam, Netherlands	F
+86-1099732458	6	Yizhuangzhen, Beijing, China	M
+65-67234824	7	Yishun, Singapore	M
+81-357799072	8	Koto City, Tokyo, Japan	M

To select records of male employees from Employee table, the query is given below.
```
SELECT * FROM Employee
WHERE EmpID = ANY
(SELECT EmpID 
FROM Contact_Info WHERE Gender = 'M');
```
The subquery will produce following result:

EmpID

3

6

7

8

The query then compares EmpID values with subquery result. It returns TRUE as few records satisfy the condition and produces the following result:

EmpID Name City Age Salary

3 Jo Paris 27 2800

6 Huang Beijing 28 2800

EmpID
3
6
7
8

EmpID	Name	City	Age	Salary
3	Jo	Paris	27	2800
6	Huang	Beijing	28	2800

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