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May 10th, 2004, 10:52 PM
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Need some help with DELETE command
Hello,
I am new to SQL and am learning basics in a class. I am having a problem with deleting. I have this table that looks like (only a small portion shown): letter lDate a 1/1/98 a 1/1/98 a 1/1/98 a 1/1/99 a 1/1/99 b 1/1/99 c 1/1/97 d 1/1/99 I want to delete all letter a with dates before 1/1/99. Could someone please help me out?...I can't seem to get this to work. Thank you, Tazz
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May 10th, 2004, 11:56 PM
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Here's how to code a DELETE
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Delete from [myTable] where [filter criteria] ...not to hard, but be careful. B/c they can be somewhat disasterous, I'd advise pre SELECTing what you want to delete first, just to be sure you're whacking the correct data. Just do a normal query to get what you're looking for then just change the Select * to Delete. Honestly, test this code, I'm not familiar w/dates in that format, @some pont these should select the records you're looking for  ...Code:
--1) select * from myTable where letter = 'A' and lDate < '1/1/99' --or 2) since you want everything before Jan 1st, 1999 select * from myTable where letter = 'A' and YEAR(lDate) < '99' --may need to use '1999' ...then simply Delete 'em. Last edited by Username=NULL : May 11th, 2004 at 12:02 AM.
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May 11th, 2004, 02:08 AM
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sure Tazz, anytime.
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