The ANY and SOME operators, which are synonyms, perform a Boolean test returning true if even one record in the result set matches the Boolean condition. ANY/SOME is semantically equivalent to IN and EXISTS, but much less widespread.  To ensure easy maintenance of your code, use IN or EXISTS rather than ANY/SOME wherever possible. A bit more explanation,  ANY/SOME operators return TRUE when at least one record matches and return FALSE when none match or when there's an empty result set.  If any of the values are NULL, then the operation value will be NULL, not TRUE. ANY/SOME can be used for … [Read more...]