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  3. March 2002

RE: delete orphaned records in SQL

I can't speak to more recent releases, but at V4R1 you must concatenate the
keys.  In your case the statement would be:
Delete from DETAILFILE where DKEY1 || DKEY2 not in (Select HKEY1 || HKEY2
from HEADERFILE)

Any numeric key fields should be converted to character using the DIGITS
function.

Hope that helps.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
The Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 ext. 2124
DFisher@roomstoreeast.com

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I want to write an sql statement to delete orphaned records from a detail
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