Adrian Small


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SQL Server is the best RDBMS, at least according to the current thinking at SQLServerCentral.com, and is fully capable of meeting all of your database needs. However not all database systems run on SQL Server and it seems that we often see data from some other system being consolidated on SQL Server for additional processing or reporting. DTS usually handles the load, but there are times that you might want create a linked server to an Oracle system for updating individual rows. New author Adria

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Getting ANY of the data

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         12
What is returned from this query?
SELECT *
FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc
WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY
  (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);
 

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