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The most common use of a subquery is in the form:

non_subquery_operandcomparison_operator (subquery)

Wherecomparison_operator is one of these operators:

=  >  <  >=  <=  <>  !=  <=>

For example:

... WHERE 'a' = (SELECT column1 FROM t1)

MySQL also permits this construct:

non_subquery_operand LIKE (subquery)

At one time the only legal place for a subquery was on the right side of a comparison, and you might still find some old DBMSs that insist on this.

Here is an example of a common-form subquery comparison that you cannot do with a join. It finds all the rows in tablet1 for which thecolumn1 value is equal to a maximum value in tablet2:

SELECT * FROM t1  WHERE column1 = (SELECT MAX(column2) FROM t2);

Here is another example, which again is impossible with a join because it involves aggregating for one of the tables. It finds all rows in tablet1 containing a value that occurs twice in a given column:

SELECT * FROM t1 AS t  WHERE 2 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1.id = t.id);

For a comparison of the subquery to a scalar, the subquery must return a scalar. For a comparison of the subquery to a row constructor, the subquery must be a row subquery that returns a row with the same number of values as the row constructor. SeeSection 15.2.15.5, “Row Subqueries”.