Is the reason it performs so poorly because you're repeating the use of the 'A' table,
and so created a correlated sub-query?
What if you recoded it like this:
delete from A
where ID not in
(select A2.ID from A A2, B
where B.A_ID=A2.ID)
Just a thought.
Kerry S
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On 8/20/99 at 3:46 PM Peter Hyde wrote:
>Hi folks,
> This will be simple for the experts, I hope. I have two tables,
>one of which, "A" has an ID field, and another of which, "B" is a
>join table which references A.ID.
>
>I want to delete from "A" all items which are not currently
>represented in B. I could use this SQL I think, but I'm conscious
>of how SLOOOOOOW it would be, because the second query is
>going to be run for EVERY row in A. Can anyone propose a more
>efficient formulation please?
>
>delete from A
> where ID not in
> (select A.ID from A, B
> where B.A_ID=A.ID)
>
>
>
>
>cheers,
>peter
>
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