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I have this data in two tables:
-- Beer table BeerIDBeerNamebrewer 5Becks Interbrew 6Fat Tire New Belgium 7Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery 8Alaskan AmberAlaskan Brewing 9Kirin Kirin Brewing -- Beercount table BeerName BottleCount Becks 5 Fat Tire 1 Mac n Jacks 2 Alaskan Amber 4 NULL 7 Corona 2 Tsing Tao 4 Kirin 12What is returned from this query?
SELECT * FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);See possible answers