Re: best way to query

Steve Clark wrote:

> any way i have 2 table - A and B.
> each table has a key field and if a row is in B it should have a
> corresponding row in A - but theres
> the problem it doesn't for all the rows in B.
>
> So I want to do something like
> delete from B where key not in (select key from A order by key);
>
> The problem is there are about 1,000,000 rows in A and 300,000 rows
in
> B. I let the above run
> all night and it was still running the next morning. Does anyone have

> an idea of a better way.

An outer join is sometimes spectacularly more efficient for this
particular kind of query.

I'd suggest you try:

delete from B where key in
(select B.key from B left outer join A on A.key=B.key
where A.key is null)

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