deleting using left join and a table variable

Question

Hi Folks,

Maybe I'm missing a bracket or something but I'm having a hard time deleting rows from a table variable where I'm left joining and looking for the key I'm joining on. If it has a value, then I get rid of it. The problem is that I can't get the query to parse. Any ideas?

declare @MrTemp ( key1 int ,key2 int )

insert into @MrTemp select key1, key2 from ASourceTable

delete
from @MrTemp mt left join ARealTable art on mt.key1 = art.key1 and mt.key2 = art.key2 where art.key1 is not null and art.key2 is not null

Answer 1

DELETE @MrTemp
FROM @MrTemp mt LEFT JOIN ...

Answer 2

You need to reference the alias after the delete but before the from for the table you want to delete from

delete art 
from @MrTemp mt left join ARealTable art on 
mt.key1 = art.key1 and mt.key2 = art.key2 
where art.key1 is not null and art.key2 is not null

Answer 3

You can only delete from one table at a time:

to delete from @MrTemp [where there is a matching record in ARealTable]

delete mt
from @MrTemp mt left join ARealTable art on mt.key1 = art.key1 and mt.key2 = art.key2 where art.key1 is not null and art.key2 is not nu

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or. to delete from ARealTable [again where the record has a corresponding record in ARealTable]

delete art
from @MrTemp mt left join ARealTable art on mt.key1 = art.key1 and mt.key2 = art.key2 where art.key1 is not null and art.key2 is not null