Question

Can someone help me understand what’s wrong with this query:

DELETE FROM noteproject 
INNER JOIN note ON noteproject.noteID = note.noteID
INNER JOIN person ON note.personID = person.personID
WHERE noteID = '#attributes.noteID#' 
  AND personID = '#attributes.personID#'

Answer 1

The reason why what you are trying to use doesn’t work, is because MySQL doesn’t support join syntax in the delete statement in the manner you tried.

Use:

DELETE FROM NOTEPROJECT
 WHERE noteID = '#attributes.noteID#' 
   AND note_id IN (SELECT n.note_id 
                     FROM NOTE n
                    WHERE n.personID = '#attributes.personID#')

…or using EXISTS:

DELETE FROM NOTEPROJECT
 WHERE noteID = '#attributes.noteID#' 
   AND EXISTS (SELECT NULL
                 FROM NOTE n
                WHERE n.note_id = note_id
                  AND n.personID = '#attributes.personID#')