Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/39 11:22

David Portas (REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@acm.org) writes:
> DELETE FROM T1
> WHERE EXISTS
> (SELECT *
> FROM T2
> WHERE T1.a = T2.c
> AND T1.b = T2.d) ;

Which should be added, is a syntax that also works in Oracle.

Then again the syntax with IN that Oracle has is, as far as I know,
ANSI-compliant, so SQL Server is at fault here.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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