Mustapha Amrani wrote:
>I have two linked tables Table1 and Table2. I have deleted some rows in tabl
>e1
>Now I need two delete the rows in table2 that correspond to the rows
>deleted in table1. The two table are linked by field id.
>I tried the following but with no success:
>delete * from table2 where not exists (select * from table1 where
>table2.id=id);
How about:
DELETE FROM table2 WHERE id NOT IN (select id FROM table1);
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