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ANY and ALL

Compare against a subquery with ANY and ALL.

ANY and ALL

ANY compares against any value in the list, ALL against every value.

SELECT name FROM products
WHERE price > ANY (SELECT price FROM products WHERE category = 'Kitap');

This query returns products more expensive than any book.

name is selected from products. WHERE keeps only the rows where price > ANY (SELECT price FROM products WHERE category = … holds.

ANY and ALL — details

ANY means 'at least one', ALL means 'every'. They work with the list from the subquery.

For example, price > ALL (…) returns values greater than the largest in the list, while price > ANY (…) returns those greater than the smallest.

Practice ANY and ALL

Find products more expensive than any book using > ANY (SELECT price ...).

Starter code

query.sql
-- more than any
SELECT name FROM products
WHERE price >

Sample solution

query.sql
SELECT name FROM products
WHERE price > ANY (SELECT price FROM products WHERE category = 'Kitap');

Expected output

name
Laptop
Telefon

Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Add ANY

Question 
SELECT name FROM products
WHERE price > ____ (SELECT price FROM products WHERE category = 'Kitap');
Answer 
SELECT name FROM products
WHERE price > ANY (SELECT price FROM products WHERE category = 'Kitap');

Explanation: > ANY returns rows greater than at least one value from the subquery.

2 What does ALL mean?

  • Everyone Correct answer
  • Any one of them
  • Exactly one
  • None

Explanation: ALL compares against every value.

3 ANY and ALL: match the terms

Term Meaning
ANY any
ALL all
IN list
EXISTS existence

All lessons in Intermediate

1 INNER JOIN in depth

  1. INNER JOIN logic
  2. Choosing the join column
  3. Three-table INNER JOIN
  4. Self JOIN
  5. Filtering joins
  6. Summary - INNER JOIN

2 LEFT and RIGHT JOIN

  1. LEFT JOIN
  2. RIGHT JOIN
  3. Unmatched rows
  4. JOINs with NULL
  5. LEFT vs RIGHT
  6. Summary - LEFT and RIGHT JOIN

3 FULL and CROSS JOIN

  1. FULL OUTER JOIN
  2. CROSS JOIN
  3. When to CROSS JOIN
  4. Comma JOIN
  5. Choosing a JOIN type
  6. Summary - FULL and CROSS JOIN

4 Project: Library database

  1. Library design
  2. Books and authors
  3. List loans with LEFT JOIN
  4. Find overdue loans
  5. Member summary

5 GROUP BY

  1. What is GROUP BY?
  2. Single-column grouping
  3. Multi-column grouping
  4. GROUP BY with aggregates
  5. Ordering grouped results
  6. Summary - GROUP BY

6 HAVING

  1. What is HAVING?
  2. HAVING vs WHERE
  3. HAVING with aggregates
  4. Multiple conditions
  5. HAVING with aliases
  6. Summary - HAVING

7 Aggregate functions

  1. COUNT
  2. SUM
  3. AVG
  4. MIN and MAX
  5. NULL and aggregates
  6. Summary - Aggregates

8 Project: Sales report

  1. Sales design
  2. Daily revenue
  3. Best sellers
  4. Customer segments
  5. Low performers

9 Subquery

  1. What is a subquery?
  2. Scalar subquery
  3. Subquery with IN
  4. ANY and ALL
  5. Correlated subquery
  6. Summary - Subquery

10 EXISTS

  1. What is EXISTS?
  2. NOT EXISTS
  3. EXISTS vs IN
  4. EXISTS performance
  5. Multiple EXISTS
  6. Summary - EXISTS

11 UNION and INTERSECT

  1. UNION
  2. UNION ALL
  3. INTERSECT
  4. EXCEPT
  5. Set rules
  6. Summary - UNION and INTERSECT

12 CASE

  1. What is CASE?
  2. Searched CASE
  3. Simple CASE
  4. The ELSE branch
  5. CASE with aggregates
  6. Summary - CASE

13 VIEW

  1. What is a VIEW?
  2. CREATE VIEW
  3. Querying a VIEW
  4. DROP VIEW
  5. Updatable VIEWs
  6. Summary - VIEW

14 INDEX basics

  1. What is an INDEX?
  2. CREATE INDEX
  3. Composite INDEX
  4. DROP INDEX
  5. When to index
  6. Summary - INDEX

15 Project: Blog database

  1. Blog design
  2. Post list
  3. Tag search
  4. Author stats
  5. Search index

16 Normalization

  1. What is normalization?
  2. First normal form
  3. Second normal form
  4. Third normal form
  5. BCNF
  6. Summary - Normalization

17 Data integrity

  1. What is integrity?
  2. Entity integrity
  3. Referential integrity
  4. Domain integrity
  5. Integrity with triggers
  6. Summary - Data integrity

18 Transaction basics

  1. What is a transaction?
  2. BEGIN and COMMIT
  3. ROLLBACK
  4. SAVEPOINT
  5. ACID
  6. Summary - Transaction

19 ALTER and DROP

  1. ALTER TABLE
  2. Adding a column
  3. Dropping a column
  4. Changing a column type
  5. DROP TABLE
  6. Summary - ALTER and DROP

20 Intermediate final

  1. Multi-JOIN report
  2. Aggregate analysis
  3. Subquery challenge
  4. Transaction scenario