How Do I Delete Records By Using Other Column In Sql

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ID	DATE
1	2015-07-23 04:00:02.000
2	2015-07-24 04:00:02.000
3	2015-07-25 04:00:02.000
4	2015-07-26 04:00:02.000
5	2015-07-27 04:00:02.000
6	2015-07-28 04:00:02.000
7	2015-07-29 04:00:02.000
8	2015-07-30 04:00:02.000

how do i delete the top 2 date record by using id column please explain me on stored procedure code because i have lot lakhs of records every time i cannot mention date in where condition

Posted 4-Jan-16 21:49pm

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Tomas Takac 5-Jan-16 3:59am

In SQL Server you can use TOP with DELETE[^]. Is that your question?

Tryingtobeageek 5-Jan-16 4:05am

s sir

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revankm · Answer 1 · 2016-01-04T23:07:00

Solution 1

I have place the above given data into ans table

select top 2 * into #temp from ans order by sdate desc

select * from #temp

delete from ans where id in (select id from #temp)

select * from ans

drop table #temp

Posted 4-Jan-16 23:07pm

revankm

TenmanS14 · Answer 2 · 2016-01-05T22:24:00

Solution 2

SQL

DELETE from mytable WHERE id IN (SELECT TOP 2 ID FROM mytable ORDER BY Date ASC)

Posted 5-Jan-16 22:24pm

TenmanS14