"...I want to be able to delete a rowid from the ROLES TABLE, but only if the roleid does not exist in the USERS TABLE..."

DELETE FROM roles
WHERE roleid NOT IN ( SELECT DISTINCT roleid FROM users);


Rui


Chris Bolt writes:


How about:

DELETE FROM users WHERE userid IN (SELECT u.userid FROM users AS u
LEFT JOIN roles AS r ON (u.roleid = r.roleid) WHERE r.roleid IS NULL
LIMIT 1);


On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:59:25 -0400, Brock Jimmy D Contr 74 MDSS/SGSI
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I've been able to figure how to use a delete subquery to delete all rows, but how do I use a delete subquery to delete only one row?


I have two tables: users and roles with the following fields:

Users:

userid

roleid

Roles:

roleid

I want to be able to delete a rowid from the roles table, but only if the roleid does not exist in the users table.

thanks




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