You could use where exists.
delete from t1 where exists (select id from blacklist as b where b.id =
t1.id)
HTH
Chad
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From: <luca.scaramella@recom.it>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:45 AM
Subject: [SQL] DELETE FROM A BLACK LIST
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> Hi all,
> I have a Blacklist table containing about 1000 ID to delete from another
> table (T1 about 1440294 records)
> If i use the SQL
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> DELETE FROM T1 WHERE T1.ID IN (SELECT BLACKLIST.ID FROM BLACKLIST)
>
> the operation is very slow .
>
> There is a faster way to do the same operation??
>
> Thanks
> Luca
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