SQL ANY and ALL Operators

SQL ANY and ALL Description

The SQL statements ANY and ALL allow you to perform a comparison between a value in one column and a range of other values.

SQL ANY Description

Operator ANY:

returns a boolean value as the result

returns TRUE if ANY of the subquery values matches the condition

ANY means that the condition will be true if the operation is true for any of the values in the range.

ANY Syntax

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator ANY
  (SELECT column_name
   FROM table_name
   WHERE condition)

The operator must be a standard comparison operator (=, <>, !=, >, >=, <, or <=).

SQL ALL Description

Operator ALL:

returns a boolean value as the result

returns TRUE if ALL subquery values match the condition

used with SELECT, WHERE and HAVING operators

ALL means that the condition will be true only if the operation is true for all values in the range.

ALL Syntax together with SELECT

SELECT ALL column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE condition

ALL Syntax together with WHERE or HAVING

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator ALL
  (SELECT column_name
   FROM table_name
   WHERE condition)

The operator must be a standard comparison operator (=, <>, !=, >, >=, <, or <=).

Demonstration database

The following is a sample from the "Products" ("Products") table of the "Northwind" database:

ProductID	ProductName	SupplierID	CategoryID	Unit	Price
1	Chais	1	1	10 boxes x 20 bags	18.00
2	Chang	1	1	24 - 12 oz bottles	19.00
3	Aniseed Syrup	1	2	12 - 550 ml bottles	10.00
4	Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning	2	2	48 - 6 oz jars	22.00
5	Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix	2	2	36 boxes	21.35
6	Grandma's Boysenberry Spread	3	2	12 - 8 oz jars	25.00
7	Uncle Bob's Organic Dried Pears	3	7	12 - 1 lb pkgs.	30.00
8	Northwoods Cranberry Sauce	3	2	12 - 12 oz jars	40.00
9	Mishi Kobe Niku	4	6	18 - 500 g pkgs.	97.00
10	Ikura	4	8	12 - 200 ml jars	31.00

And the sample from the table "OrderDetails" ("Order details"):

OrderDetailID	OrderID	ProductID	Quantity
1	10248	11	12
2	10248	42	10
3	10248	72	5
4	10249	14	9
5	10249	51	40
6	10250	41	10
7	10250	51	35
8	10250	65	15
9	10251	22	6
10	10251	57	15

SQL ANY Examples

The following SQL query lists ProductName if it finds any (ANY) record in the OrderDetails table with a Quantity value equal to 10 (this will return TRUE because the Quantity column has some values of 10):

Run SQLSELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ANY
  (SELECT ProductID
   FROM OrderDetails
   WHERE Quantity = 10)

The following SQL query lists ProductName if it finds any (ANY) record in the OrderDetails table with a quantity greater than 99 (this will return TRUE because the Quantity column contains some values greater than 99):

Run SQLSELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ANY
  (SELECT ProductID
   FROM OrderDetails
   WHERE Quantity > 99)

Another SQL statement lists ProductName if it finds any (ANY) record in the OrderDetails table with a quantity greater than 1000 (this will return FALSE because the Quantity column does not contain values greater than 1000):

Run SQLSELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ANY
  (SELECT ProductID
   FROM OrderDetails
   WHERE Quantity > 1000)

SQL ALL Examples

The following SQL statement lists all (ALL) product names:

Run SQLSELECT ALL ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE TRUE

The following SQL statement lists ProductName if all (ALL) records in the OrderDetails table have a count equal to 10. Of course, this will return FALSE because the column Quantity has many different values (not just the value 10):

Run SQLSELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE ProductID = ALL
  (SELECT ProductID
   FROM OrderDetails
   WHERE Quantity = 10)