DELETE using JOIN, is that possible in Vertica?

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DELETE using JOIN, is that possible in Vertica?

Post by jagadeesh » Sun May 05, 2013 4:22 pm

Can we DELETE records based on JOIN.

that is delete records which are common between the tables.

Ex:

Delete from table_A join table_b
on a.col1=b.col1;

i am getting an error 4856: Syntax error at or near "join"

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Re: DELETE using JOIN, is that possible in Vertica?

Post by JimKnicely » Tue May 07, 2013 1:22 pm

Hi!

You must have been using MySQL where that syntax is ok :)

This DELETE statement will do the same thing in Vertica:

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DELETE FROM table_A 
 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT NULL
                 FROM table_b 
                WHERE table_b.col1 = table_A.col1);
Please make sure to test it!
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Re: DELETE using JOIN, is that possible in Vertica?

Post by jagadeesh » Tue May 07, 2013 6:46 pm

Oh ya... co-related...

Thanks... this works...

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