Combining DELETE and JOIN statements

In SQL Server 2000/2005 (not CE) I can use the following T-SQL statement to delete orphaned rows from a table:

DELETE GroupsMembers FROM GroupsMembers LEFT OUTER JOIN Groups ON GroupsMembers.GroupID = Groups.ID WHERE Groups.ID IS NULL

SQL Server CE does not seem to support combining the JOIN statement with the DELETE statement. Is this correct? If yes, is there any alternative statement that could be used to accomplish the same thing?

GerritYou could try with a NOT IN.

DELETE FROM GroupsMembers WHERE GroupID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM Groups)
|||Thanks, that does seem to do the trick.

Gerrit

Column Conflict error

Hi;

I am getting this error while I am trying to delete a record from "MediaTypes" table
Media Types table and DVBTestCOutputs table have related through MediaID (cascade on update only not delete)

MediaTypes DVBTestCOutputs
---- -------
MediaID int ....................
MType char(10) ....................
MediaType int

DELETE statement conflicted with COLUMN REFERENCE constraint 'FK_DVBTestCOutputs_MediaTypes1'. The conflict occurred in database 'Test', table 'DVBTestCOutputs', column 'MediaType'.

can you help me please I do not want the related record deleted also from DVBTestCOutputs table so I didn't choose the cascade on delete checkbox is this the problem??If there is a PK-FK constraint, then you are not allowed to have child records that have no parent record. You will need to update the value of the ParentID in the child table to another ParentID, before deleting the parent record.

Otherwise, you need to remove your constraint.

Cheers
Ken