Question

Is it possible to do something along those lines:

DELETE TOP(1) m
FROM MyTable m
OUTPUT deleted.*
LEFT JOIN MyOtherTable ON MyOtherTable.SomeColumn=s.SomeColumn

I know this works:

DELETE TOP(1) 
FROM MyTable
OUTPUT deleted.*

And this also works (although pointless):

DELETE TOP(1) m 
FROM MyTable m
LEFT JOIN MyOtherTable ON m.SomeColumn=MyOtherTable.SomeColumn

Answer 1

Move the OUTPUT clause to before the JOIN

DELETE TOP(1) m 
OUTPUT deleted.* 
FROM MyTable m 
LEFT JOIN MyOtherTable ON MyOtherTable.SomeColumn=s.SomeColumn