# Subquery in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/subquery-in-elastic-search/65438>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/subquery-in-elastic-search/65438 "2016-11-09T06:13:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![yogeshyadav.mca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecd19e/32.png) [@yogeshyadav.mca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yogeshyadav.mca)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/subquery-in-elastic-search/65438/1 "2016-11-09T06:13:31Z")

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Can we use output of one query as input to another query?  
Can you perform a subquery similar to sql?

For ex:

SELECT column-names  
FROM table-name1  
WHERE value IN (SELECT column-name  
FROM table-name2  
WHERE condition)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/subquery-in-elastic-search/65438/2 "2016-11-09T08:37:27Z")

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No you can't.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/subquery-in-elastic-search/65438/3 "2016-12-07T08:37:53Z")

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