Question

WHILE @@ROWCOUNT <> 0
BEGIN
     CHECKPOINT;
    DELETE TOP (300000)
      FROM [dbo].[Event] AS E
     INNER JOIN #tempEvents AS TE
        ON E.[EventID] = TE.[EventID]
END

For starters, I get:
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'.

So, I remove this and replace with the aliases with full table names, which gives me:
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'INNER'.

I found this question which is where I found out about doing an INNER JOIN, but SQL Server isn’t parsing this correctly. Any ideas?

Answer 1

try this:

WHILE @@ROWCOUNT <> 0
BEGIN
     CHECKPOINT;
    DELETE TOP (300000) E
      FROM [dbo].[Event] AS E
     INNER JOIN #tempEvents AS TE
        ON E.[EventID] = TE.[EventID]
END

you missed the tablename/alias after the top statement.