Showing posts with label tablea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tablea. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Opendatasource problem

hi to every one...

To delete records in tableA which is not found in tableB i am using the following :
DELETE tableA from tableA aa left join tableB bb on aa.fld = bb.fld where bb.fld is null
** This will work fine **
but if i Use similer but using OPENDATASOURCE , like this:

delete OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Data Source="c:\temp\data2004.mdb";
User ID="Admin";Password="";Jet OLEDB:Database Password="lea"')...tableA
from OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Data Source="c:\temp\data2004.mdb";
User ID="Admin";Password="";Jet OLEDB:Database Password="lea"')...tableA aa left join tableB bb on aa.lno=ba.lno where b.lno is null

the result is deleteing whole of TableA....

any help is appriciated
Thanks.Does this syntax work?:

delete
from OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Data Source="c:\temp\data2004.mdb";
User ID="Admin";Password="";Jet OLEDBatabase Password="lea"')...tableA aa left join tableB bb on aa.lno=ba.lno where b.lno is null|||this will not work , it will give the following error:

Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Line 3: Incorrect syntax near 'aa'.