On 7 Jul 2006 09:21:23 -0700, pb648174 wrote:

>I frequently have the problem where I have a list of items to delete in
>a temp table, such as
>
>ProjectId Description
>------------- ----------------
>1 test1
>2 test4
>3 test3
>4 test2
>
>
>And I want to delete all those items from another table.. What is the
>best way to do that? If I use two IN clauses it will do it where it
>matches anything in both, not the exact combination of the two. I can't
>do joins in a delete clause like an update, so how is this typically
>handled?

Hi pb648174,

DELETE FROM AnotherTable
WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT *
FROM #ItemsToDelete AS d
WHERE AnotherTable.ProjectId = d.ProjectID
AND AnotherTable.Description = d.Description)


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Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP