lokesh sharma

My name is Lokesh Sharma, I have 5 years of experience working with SQL and am really interested in exploring more and more about this fascinating language. My aim here is to share some of the challenges that I faced while working with SQL and also to get feedback whether the approach I followed is an optimal one or not.
  • Interests: Writing and troubleshooting SQL Queries obviously :-). Other than that a fitness freak

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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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