At 10:40 -0400 6/25/02, Peter M. Perchansky wrote: >Greetings: > >Thanks to Jay from this list and doing some reading, I resolved the >insert issue when trying to insert records using a select where the >tables are the same. > >Now I'm trying to clean up the old records, and no matter what >delete statement I try, it fails: > > >DELETE FROM Customer_Equipment, Customer WHERE SUBSTRING(Server_ID, >5,4) = Customer.User_ID; > >DELETE Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE >SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Customer.User_ID; > >I've read http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/E/DELETE.html several times and >don't know what I'm doing wrong. > >Here's an example with the error message: > >DELETE Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE >SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Customer.User_ID; > > ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near >'Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE > SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Custo' at line 1 > >Thoughts on how to fix?
DELETE statements that refer to multiple tables aren't supported until MySQL 4. I'm guessing you have an older version? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
