Re: sophisticated DELETE query

2001-05-06 Thread ryc
If you wanted to do this using a SELECT you would do a LEFT JOIN or equivalent action. Glancing over the DELETE syntax in the documentation it does not look like DELETE supports any such mechanism. I dont think it is possible to involve more than one table in a DELETE query. ryan > I have two ta

Re: sophisticated DELETE query

2001-05-06 Thread Zak Greant
Simon Grabowski wrote: > Hi, > > I have two tables: table1 and table2. > Both tables share the same 'account_id' > column. In table1 there is a column > 'active' which is always either 'y' (account > active) or 'n' (account inactive). > > Now here is what I want to do... > > I want to delete all

sophisticated DELETE query

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Grabowski
Hi, I have two tables: table1 and table2. Both tables share the same 'account_id' column. In table1 there is a column 'active' which is always either 'y' (account active) or 'n' (account inactive). Now here is what I want to do... I want to delete all entries from table2 with account_id matchin