Re: DELETE with JOIN

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:00:35PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote:

> Could you not achieve the same result with a LIMIT on subSELECT and reissue 
> the command until there is nothing to delete?

Oracle has some barbarous alternative to LIMIT.  I find myself
retching over Oracle almost as much as MySQL.

> If you're really desperate; is it possible to alter table 'a' to add column 
> b_id; populate it; delete your rows without a join; then drop the column?

I thought of something similar, but UPDATE has the same limitation as DELETE.

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