Jeremy Zawodny writes: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:25:31PM -0500, Jason Yates wrote: > > Heres an example scenario, say I have two tables > > > > table1 > > -----> id > > | name > > | > > | table2 > > |_____> id > > address > > zip > > > > I inner join table1 and table2 on id. I want to delete all the > > records in table1 which have a zip of '90210'. > > Good choice. 90210 is first to go on my list, too. :-) > > > I could create a script, run a select and loop through each id and > > delete the records in table1. > > If you're running MySQL 4.x, multi-table deletes: > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/E/DELETE.html > > may be what you need, if I understand you right. > > Otherwise, you've gotta write that loop. > > Jeremy > -- > Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance > Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 > > MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 22 days, processed 514,844,619 queries (266/sec. avg) >
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