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chan2004
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Joined: 28 Mar 2007
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Location: India
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Hi,
I want to delete all records from a table A after comparing it with another table,B.
Both tables have same structure.
They have a column called 'name'.
if a row is there that contains a value of 'john' in name field of table A and there is no such value in table B, i need to delete it from table A
how to delete all such rows with one sql command?
will this sql work
DELETE FROM tableA
WHERE
ID = :id
AND
NAME not in
(SELECT NAME FROM tableB)
;
will this delete all rows? |
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guptae
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Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 1208
Location: Bangalore,India
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Hello Chan,
I have just viewing ur query but unable to understand why u have used ID Col.
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DELETE FROM tableA
WHERE
AND
NAME not in
(SELECT NAME FROM tableB)
; |
I think below query is sufficent
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DELETE FROM tableA
WHERE
NAME not in
(SELECT NAME FROM tableB)
; |
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chan2004
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Location: India
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[quote="guptae"]Hello Chan,
I have just viewing ur query but unable to understand why u have used ID Col.
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DELETE FROM tableA
WHERE
AND
NAME not in
(SELECT NAME FROM tableB)
; |
I think below query is sufficent
thanks ekta for confirming the query
the id is just another condition that i need to check before deleting  |
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