What are Correlated Subqueries?

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Correlated subqueries are used for row-by-row processing. Each subquery is executed once for every row of the outer query.

A correlated subquery is evaluated once for each row processed by the parent statement. The parent statement can be a SELECT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

Syntax:

SELECT column1, column2, ....
FROM table1 outer
WHERE column1 operator
                    (SELECT column1, column2
                     FROM table2
                     WHERE expr1 = 
                               outer.expr2);

A correlated subquery is one way of reading every row in a table and comparing values in each row against related data. It is used whenever a subquery must return a different result or set of results for each candidate row considered by the main query. In other words, you can use a correlated subquery to answer a multipart question whose answer depends on the value in each row processed by the parent statement.