delete multiple rows?

• shaun.mccudden

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  May 26, 2009 at 9:32 am

  #221537

  Ive got about 600 accounts that I need to delete from the database but every time i try to delete multiple accounts at a time i get an error message or it doesnt affect any rows.

  ive tried

  DELETE FROM Member

  WHERE Email = 'email@email.com, email2@email.com'

  which doesnt do anything

  DELETE FROM Member

  WHERE Email = 'email@email.com' AND 'email2@email.com'

  etc

  any tutorials or examples that show me how to delete multiple rows in a single table?

  id rather write out a decent sized query then have to go through and write a query for each..

• CrazyMan

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  May 26, 2009 at 9:51 am

  #999977

  try

  DELETE FROM Member

  WHERE Email in ( 'email@email.com' , 'email2@email.com')

• shaun.mccudden

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  May 26, 2009 at 9:57 am

  #999989

  awesome that works, thanks.

• Jeffrey Williams

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  May 26, 2009 at 10:08 am

  #999999

  If you have the list of accounts available in a table, you could alter your syntax to:

  DELETE FROM Member

  WHERE Email IN (SELECT Account FROM AccountTable);

  If you have this list in Excel - you can import it to a table so you can use the above instead of typing in all 600 manually.

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• shaun.mccudden

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  May 26, 2009 at 10:40 am

  #1000031

  Thanks, next time ill be sure to do the excel import table way so i dont have to do a huge query.