At 15:57 20.03.2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Essentially what you propose is the same query just using SQL89 join
>syntax

Not quite. Your statement was

delete from tbl_service_rel
where
exists(
select * from tbl_service_rel rel join tbl_service svc on
(rel.service_id = svc.service_id)
where svc.party_id = 10700013277)

which basically should delete all rows in tbl_service_rel if there is one
record matching your criteria. Your SQL references three tables - with two
references to tbl_service_rel and one to tbl_service. By reducing this to
two references (only one reference to tbl_service_rel) I changed the query
to only delete the rows that actually contain the desired service_id. It
has nothing to do with SQL89 vs SQL92 - I use SQL92 whenever I can, but in
a subselect you have to use the equality operator if you want to reference
the master table, JOIN isn't an option.

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