At 10:40 -0400 6/25/02, Peter M. Perchansky wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>Thanks to Jay from this list and doing some reading, I resolved the
>insert issue when trying to insert records using a select where the
>tables are the same.
>
>Now I'm trying to clean up the old records, and no matter what
>delete statement I try, it fails:
>
>
>DELETE FROM Customer_Equipment, Customer WHERE SUBSTRING(Server_ID,
>5,4) = Customer.User_ID;
>
>DELETE Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE
>SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Customer.User_ID;
>
>I've read http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/E/DELETE.html several times and
>don't know what I'm doing wrong.
>
>Here's an example with the error message:
>
>DELETE Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE
>SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Customer.User_ID;
>
> ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
>'Content, Customer FROM Content, Customer WHERE
> SUBSTRING(Server_ID, 5,4) = Custo' at line 1
>
>Thoughts on how to fix?
DELETE statements that refer to multiple tables aren't supported until
MySQL 4. I'm guessing you have an older version?
