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<h1 class="topictitle1">Example: Correlated subquery in a WHERE clause</h1>
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<div><p>Suppose that you want a list of all the employees whose education
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levels are higher than the average education levels in their respective departments.
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To get this information, SQL must search the CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE table.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>For each employee in the table, SQL needs to compare the employee's
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education level to the average education level for the employee's department.
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In the subquery, you tell SQL to calculate the average education level for
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the department number in the current row. For example: </p>
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<pre> <strong>SELECT</strong> EMPNO, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, EDLEVEL
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<strong>FROM</strong> CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE X
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<strong>WHERE</strong> EDLEVEL >
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(<strong>SELECT AVG</strong>(EDLEVEL)
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<strong>FROM</strong> CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE
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<strong>WHERE</strong> WORKDEPT = X.WORKDEPT)</pre>
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</div>
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<div class="section"><p>A correlated subquery looks like an uncorrelated one, except for
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the presence of one or more correlated references. In the example, the single
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correlated reference is the occurrence of X.WORKDEPT in the subselect's FROM
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clause. Here, the qualifier <em>X</em> is the correlation name defined in the
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FROM clause of the outer SELECT statement. In that clause, <em>X</em> is introduced
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as the correlation name of the table CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>Now, consider what happens when the subquery is executed for a
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given row of CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE. Before it is executed, the occurrence of X.WORKDEPT
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is replaced with the value of the WORKDEPT column for that row. Suppose, for
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example, that the row is for CHRISTINE I HAAS. Her work department is A00,
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which is the value of WORKDEPT for this row. The subquery executed for this
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row is:</p>
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<pre> (<strong>SELECT AVG</strong>(EDLEVEL)
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<strong>FROM</strong> CORPDATA.EMPLOYEE
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<strong>WHERE</strong> WORKDEPT = 'A00')</pre>
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<div class="section"><p>Thus, for the row considered, the subquery produces the average
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education level of Christine's department. This is then compared in the outer
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statement to Christine's own education level. For some other row for which
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WORKDEPT has a different value, that value appears in the subquery in place
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of A00. For example, for the row for MICHAEL L THOMPSON, this value is B01,
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and the subquery for his row delivers the average education level for department
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B01.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>The result table produced by the query has the following values: </p>
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<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="hsides" border="1" rules="all"><caption>Table 1. Result set for previous query</caption><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" id="d0e93">EMPNO</th>
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<th valign="top" id="d0e95">LASTNAME</th>
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<th valign="top" id="d0e97">WORKDEPT</th>
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<th valign="top" id="d0e99">EDLEVEL</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000010</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">HAAS</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">A00</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">18</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000030</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">KWAN</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">C01</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">20</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000070</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">PULASKI</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000090</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">HENDERSON</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000110</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">LUCCHESSI</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">A00</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">19</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000160</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">PIANKA</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000180</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">SCOUTTEN</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000210</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">JONES</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000220</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">LUTZ</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">18</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000240</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">MARINO</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000260</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">JOHNSON</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000280</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">SCHNEIDER</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000320</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">MEHTA</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">000340</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">GOUNOT</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">200010</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">HEMMINGER</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">A00</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">18</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">200220</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">JOHN</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">18</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">200240</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">MONTEVERDE</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">D21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">200280</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">SCHWARTZ</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E11</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">17</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e93 ">200340</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e95 ">ALONZO</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e97 ">E21</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d0e99 ">16</td>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbafycorrs.htm" title="You can write a subquery that SQL might need to re-evaluate as it examines each new row (WHERE clause) or group of rows (HAVING clause) in the outer-level SELECT. This is called a correlated subquery.">Correlated subqueries</a></div>
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