Re: deleting multiple rows

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 19:03, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> A very simple SQL question, LOL.
>
> If I want to delete multiple rows, I can use '||' to do it like this, right?
>
> DELETE FROM TableName
> WHERE
>     column = value1 ||
>     column = value2 ||
>     column = value4 ||
>     column = value5
> ;

Wrong!

 || is for string concatenation.

Possibly you mean:

  WHERE column = value1 OR column = value2 OR ...

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