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wawanz

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Hi, if I wanted to select the top 100 records I do it with this query: "SELECT TOP 100 * FROM
"...
My question is: what if I want to delete the top 100 records, can I do that? What's the query?

Thanks

 
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If you have a unique id, then you can use a sub-query:

delete from

where id in (SELECT TOP 100 id FROM
)

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