Hi All,

I have 2 tables

BIG - 100 million records
SMALL - 1 million records.

I want to delete all the records in BIG that are in small.
There is a PK on field1.
Which of the below methods would you choose and why?

DELETE FROM big
WHERE field1 IN (SELECT field1 FROM small);

DELETE FROM big a
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM small B
                                    WHERE b.field1 = a.field1);

Thanks
Rick


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