Question

I am trying to write a simple correlated sub query that deletes all records for the selected members except the latest one.

DELETE FROM table1  p
WHERE member_id IN (1, 2,3)
AND create_dttm < (SELECT MAX(create_dttm) 
                   FROM table1   
                   WHERE  member_id = p.member_id)

But I get an error message

Incorrect syntax near ‘p’.

I can easily write 3 queries to get the work done. But was curious to know what is going wrong here ? Could you please enlighten me how to write this query correctly ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try

DELETE p
FROM table1  p
WHERE member_id IN (1, 2,3)
AND create_dttm < (SELECT MAX(create_dttm) 
                   FROM table1   
                   WHERE  member_id = p.member_id)