ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Subquery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Subquery is a noun meaning (databases) A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.

Meaning

(databases) A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.

More Meanings

  1. (databases, transitive) To run a subquery upon.

Example Sentences

We subqueried the customer data to retrieve only customers based in Europe.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include correlated, subselect, subdatabase, subtransaction, subrow, subselector.

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