Question

My problem is I am comparing two records from different tables and deleting those that match.

I have found this bit of code :

DELETE emails 
  FROM emails 
 INNER JOIN CustRecords ON CustRecords.Email = emails.email

Which works well, but I would also like to have a return value of how many records have been deleted.

Now if I do an SQL Query direct this is given to me but if I use my asp program it doesn’t show a thing.

I know I have to use the count() function but I’m only still a beginner.

If possible I would like the count result as a variable like count = (how many records deleted)?

Answer 1

Ok i think i’ve managed to work this out… Seems to be that you can’t use @@ROWCOUNT in an ASP line so i’ve got round the problem by using these 2 lines:

strSQL_count = "SELECT COUNT(email) AS 'count' FROM emails INNER JOIN CustRecords ON CustRecords.Email = emails.email"
Set rs = conn.Execute(strSQL_count)

count = rs("count")

strSQL = "DELETE emails FROM emails INNER JOIN CustRecords ON CustRecords.Email = emails.email"
Set rs = conn.Execute(strSQL)

I know that their is a simplier way of doing this but i’m only a beginner!!!

Thanks rlb.usa for you help