36. Video: IN

The IN operator is useful for working with both numeric and text columns. This operator allows you to use an =, but for more than one item of that particular column. We can check one, two or many column values for which we want to pull data, but all within the same query. In the upcoming concepts, you will see the OR operator that would also allow us to perform these tasks, but the IN operator is a cleaner way to write these queries.

Expert Tip

In most SQL environments, although not in our Udacity's classroom, you can use single or double quotation marks - and you may NEED to use double quotation marks if you have an apostrophe within the text you are attempting to pull.

In our Udacity SQL workspaces, note you can include an apostrophe by putting two single quotes together. For example, Macy's in our workspace would be 'Macy''s'.