subquery

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-der.

English sub-

English query

English subquery

From sub- + query.

Noun

subquery (plural subqueries)

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

Translations

embedded query

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子查詢 / 子查询 (zǐcháxún)

• Finnish: alikysely
• French: sous-requête (fr) f
• Portuguese: subconsulta f, subquery f
• Russian: подзапро́с (ru) m (podzaprós)
• Serbo-Croatian: podupit m

Verb

subquery (third-person singular simple present subqueries, present participle subquerying, simple past and past participle subqueried)

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

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